Why this word is great
ABSUMPTION — [Noun] The process of gradual destruction, disintegration, or wasting away. From Latin absūmptiōn-, absūmptiō, from absūmptus, past participle of absūmere ("to consume, waste away"), from ab- ("away") + sūmere ("to take"). Unlike assumption, which denotes a taking upon oneself, or consumption, which broadly indicates the using-up of a resource, absumption is the slow, erosive taking away by attrition. It is the patient gnawing of rust on iron, the silent crumbling of a book's spine into dust, and the relentless retreat of a coastline before a rising sea—the quiet, terminal arithmetic by which all things are unmade.