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Inanition

//ɪnəˈnɪʃən// noun

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Noun

1
The act of removing the contents of something; the state of being empty. countable, uncountable
"Secondary causes of sleepe are divers; as excessive labour, agitation of the body, repletion, as by excesse of meates or drinkes, inanition, as by Copulation and many more of this kinde, which doe so waste the spirits, that of necessity, there behooveth a cessation to be for a time, that new spirits may be recollected for refreshing of it [...]"
2
exhaustion resulting from lack of food wordnet
3
A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food, or water or a physiological inability to utilize them, with resulting weakness. countable, uncountable
"It may be reasonably inferred that our baby will first expire of inanition, as being the frailest member of our circle; and that our twins will follow next in order."
4
weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy wordnet
5
A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to nausea in existentialist philosophy. countable, uncountable
"There bending over her, with eyes bathed in tears, she watched the progress of her beloved Rosilia's melancholy disorder; she beheld her, pale, exhausted, either in listless inanition, or haunted with the dreadful idea that mental derangement or death would terminate her sufferings!"

Etymology

From Middle English inanicioun, borrowed from Old French inanition, itself borrowed from Late Latin inānītio, from inānīre (“to make empty”), from inānis (“empty, vain”); see inane.

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