inanition

Meaning

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.

Opposite of

repletion

Synonyms

starvation

emptiness

vacuousness

voidness

exhaustion

inanity

lassitude

lethargy

slackness

vacantness

vacancy

vacuity

food restriction

emaciation

extenuation

hunger

feed deprivation

food deprivation

desolation

Translations

inanición

inanition

inanizione

inanição

boşluk

vacuité

inanició

letargia

فضاء

Nahrungsbeschränkung

Nahrungsentzug

inanition

κενό

λήθαργος

Futterentzug

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪnəˈnɪʃən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: 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.