bodily process vs consumption

consumption vs bodily process

bodily process and consumption both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bodily process	Yes	No	No	No
consumption	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, consumption is a hyponym of bodily process; that is, consumption is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bodily process:

bodily process: an organic process that takes place in the body
consumption: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)

Other hyponyms of bodily process include control, breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation, respiration, breath, ingestion, intake, uptake, sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice, insemination, sleeping, reaction, response, crying, tears, weeping, ablactation, anastalsis, discharge, emission, expelling, expectoration, festering, maturation, suppuration, healing, hypostasis, lachrymation, lacrimation, tearing, watering, lactation, opsonisation, opsonization, overactivity, peristalsis, vermiculation, diaphoresis, hidrosis, perspiration, sudation, sweating, phagocytosis, pinocytosis, placentation, psilosis, tanning, transpiration.

bodily process (noun)	consumption (noun)
an organic process that takes place in the body	the act of consuming something
	the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
	(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
	involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body

Difference between bodily process and consumption

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