Inanition Definition

ĭnə-nĭshən
noun
Exhaustion, as from lack of nourishment or vitality.
American Heritage Medicine

Emptiness.

Wiktionary
The condition or quality of being empty.
American Heritage Medicine

(medicine) A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food or water, or a physiological inability to utilize them; starvation.

Wiktionary

(philosophy) A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to the Existentialist Philosophy state of "nausea".

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Other Word Forms of Inanition

Noun

Singular:
inanition
Plural:
inanitions

Origin of Inanition

  • Middle English inanisioun emptiness from Old French inanicion exhaustion from hunger from Late Latin inānītiō inānītiōn- emptiness from inānītus past participle of inānīre to make empty from Latin inānis empty

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French inanition, from Late Latin inānītio, from inānīre (“to make empty”), from inānis (“empty, vain”); see inane.

    From Wiktionary

Inanition Sentence Examples

  • He also established phalanges at Conde-surVesgres and elsewhere, but they had little success and soon died of inanition.

  • Being thus composed, he is neither able to eat flesh like his father, nor herbs like his mother; therefore he perisheth from inanition"; the moral follows.

  • It was in a manner deprived of its accustomed subject-matter and died of inanition.

  • It was a noble art, but unfortunately the rivalry of the Buddhist and later native styles permitted it to fall into comparative neglect, and it was left for a few of the faithful, the most famous of whom was a priest of the I 4th century named Kawo, to preserve it from inanition till the great Chinese renaissance that lent its stamp to the next period.

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Words Starting With

IININA

Words Ending With

NONION

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