INANITION

inanition

(noun) exhaustion resulting from lack of food

inanition, lassitude, lethargy, slackness

(noun) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

inanition (countable and uncountable, plural inanitions)

The act of removing the contents of something; the state of being empty.

Synonyms: emptying, emptiness

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

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

Antonyms

• (emptiness): repletion

Source: Wiktionary

In`a*ni"tion, n. Etym: [F. inanition, L. inanitio emptiness, fr. inanire to empty, fr. inanis empty. Cf. Inane.]

Definition: The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result. Feeble from inanition, inert from weariness. Landor. Repletion and inanition may both do harm in two contrary extremes. Burton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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