interabsorption

English

Etymology

From 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.