Inanition

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  • noun. Exhaustion, as from lack of nourishment or vitality.
  • noun. The condition or quality of being empty.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The condition or consequence of being inane or empty; hence, exhaustion from lack of nourishment, either physical or mental; starvation due to deficiency or mal-assimilation of food.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The condition of being inane; emptiness; lack of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from lack of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Emptiness.
  • noun. A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food or water, or a physiological inability to utilize them; starvation.
  • noun. A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to the Existentialist Philosophy state of "nausea".
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy
  • noun. exhaustion resulting from lack of food
  • Word Usage
    ""inanition" (starvation) for a short period, but that, accordingly, the qualitative side of the nourishment becomes more important the longer the fever lasts."
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