Associations to the word «Inanition»

Wiktionary

INANITION, noun. Emptiness.
INANITION, noun. (medicine) A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food or water, or a physiological inability to utilize them; starvation.
INANITION, noun. (philosophy) A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to the Existentialist Philosophy state of "nausea".

Dictionary definition

INANITION, noun. Weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy.
INANITION, noun. Exhaustion resulting from lack of food.

Wise words

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