A misspelling or obsolete variant of absorption; the process of taking in or soaking up.
A variant spelling that reflects older conventions or scribal errors. This appears in historical texts but is now considered non-standard, with absorption being the accepted form.
Spelling variants like 'absorbtion' show us that English spelling only became truly standardized in the last 200-300 years—before dictionaries, people spelled the same word different ways and nobody complained.
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