interabsorption

interabsorption

English

Etymology

inter- +‎ absorption

Noun

interabsorption (uncountable)

1. The act of absorbing each other.
   • 1997, Northrop Frye, ‎Robert D. Denham, Northrop Frye's Student Essays, 1932-1938 (volume 3, page 30)

     A gradual interabsorption of sex characteristics in temperament results, the female assuming those of the male, the male losing those which distinguish him sharply from the female.