consuming

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of consume

adj

1. Holding one's attention or interest.

   “a consuming passion”

noun

1. consumption; the process by which something is consumed

   “[…] in Greek philosophy world cycles and world incinerations were immanent processes of nature, the self-consumings of the cosmic process, which have their corresponding self-restorations.”