Consumption may refer to:

  • Eating
  • Resource consumption
  • Tuberculosis, an infectious disease, historically known as consumption
  • Consumer (food chain), receipt of energy by consuming other organisms
  • Consumption (economics), the purchasing of newly produced goods for current use also defined as the consuming of products
  • Consumption function, an economic formula
  • Consumption (sociology) of resources, associated with social class, identity, group membership, and age

See also

  • Eating (disambiguation)
  • Consumerism