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CONSUMMATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of bringing to completion or fruition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("consummation" is a kind of...):
closing; completion; culmination; mop up; windup (a concluding action)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "consummation"):
fruition; realisation; realization (something that is made real or concrete)
climax; coming; orgasm; sexual climax (the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse)
fulfillment; fulfilment (the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc))
Derivation:
consummate (make perfect; bring to perfection)
consummate (fulfill sexually)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The completion of marriage by sexual intercourse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("consummation" is a kind of...):
closing; completion; culmination; mop up; windup (a concluding action)
Derivation:
consummate (fulfill sexually)
