ingestion vs imbibing

ingestion and imbibing both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ingestion	Yes	No	No	No
imbibing	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, imbibing is a hyponym of ingestion; that is, imbibing is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than ingestion:

ingestion: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
imbibing: the act of consuming liquids

Other hyponyms of ingestion include eating, feeding, deglutition, drink, swallow, suck, sucking, suction, drinking, imbibition.

ingestion (noun)	imbibing (noun)
the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)	the act of consuming liquids