Emaciation
noun
noun ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of making very lean. countable, uncountable
- 2 extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) wordnet
- 3 The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition. countable, uncountable
"In youth he must have been singularly handsome, but years and care had left their vestiges on his noble features, which were thin even to emaciation."
Example
More examples"In youth he must have been singularly handsome, but years and care had left their vestiges on his noble features, which were thin even to emaciation."
Etymology
From emaciate + -ion.