inanition

Etymology
From, borrowed from , itself borrowed from , from , from ; see.

Noun

 * 1) The act of removing the contents of something; the state of being empty.
 * 2) * 1643, William Slatyer, The Compleat Christian, London, for the author, The Second Part of the Catechism, Section 5, p. 110,
 * 3. What meane you by Incarnation?
 * His inanition of himselfe, and as it were debasing of himselfe in respect of his majesty of divinity, thereby to put on humanity.
 * 1)  A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food, or water or a physiological inability to utilize them, with resulting weakness.
 * 2) * 1955, and Patrick Bowles (translators),  by Samuel Beckett, Part I, in Three Novels, New York: Grove, 1959, p. 202,
 * And I who a fortnight before would joyfully have reckoned how long I could survive on the provisions that remained, probably with reference to the question of calories and vitamins, and established in my head a series of menus asymptotically approaching nutritional zero, was now content to note feebly that I should soon be dead of inanition.
 * 1)  A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to nausea in existentialist philosophy.
 * 1)  A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food, or water or a physiological inability to utilize them, with resulting weakness.
 * 2) * 1955, and Patrick Bowles (translators),  by Samuel Beckett, Part I, in Three Novels, New York: Grove, 1959, p. 202,
 * And I who a fortnight before would joyfully have reckoned how long I could survive on the provisions that remained, probably with reference to the question of calories and vitamins, and established in my head a series of menus asymptotically approaching nutritional zero, was now content to note feebly that I should soon be dead of inanition.
 * 1)  A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to nausea in existentialist philosophy.
 * 1) * 1955, and Patrick Bowles (translators),  by Samuel Beckett, Part I, in Three Novels, New York: Grove, 1959, p. 202,
 * And I who a fortnight before would joyfully have reckoned how long I could survive on the provisions that remained, probably with reference to the question of calories and vitamins, and established in my head a series of menus asymptotically approaching nutritional zero, was now content to note feebly that I should soon be dead of inanition.
 * 1)  A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to nausea in existentialist philosophy.

Translations

 * French: ,
 * Irish: foilmhe
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian:, изтощ,
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 * Romanian: inanitie
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Etymology
, itself borrowed from, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) inanition state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition with resulting weakness