inanition

Signification (Anglais)

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of removing the contents of something; the state of being empty.
2. (countable, uncountable) A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food, or water or a physiological inability to utilize them, with resulting weakness.
3. (countable, uncountable) A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to nausea in existentialist philosophy.

Concepts

inanition

vacuité

fatigue

lassitude

léthargie

ineptie

Opposé de

repletion

Synonymes

starvation

emptiness

vacuousness

voidness

exhaustion

inanity

lassitude

lethargy

slackness

vacantness

vacancy

vacuity

food restriction

emaciation

extenuation

hunger

feed deprivation

food deprivation

desolation

Traductions

inanición

inanizione

inanição

boşluk

letargia

inanició

فضاء

Futterentzug

خلو

Nahrungsbeschränkung

Nahrungsentzug

inanition

κενό

λήθαργος

Hungern

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɪnəˈnɪʃən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: inanicioun

In summary

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.