consumingness

English

Etymology

consuming +‎ -ness

Noun

consumingness (uncountable)

1. The quality or characteristic of being consuming.
   • 2014, Matthew H. Kramer, Torture and Moral Integrity: A Philosophical Enquiry, page 166:

     The power of that agony to transfix a victim is what Luban eloquently delineates. […] Kreimer too has given vivid expression to the consumingness of severe pain.