noun
Meaning 1
The act of making very lean.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
emaciation
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rhymes with -eɪʃən
noun
Meaning 2
The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bonyness, boniness, gauntness, maceration
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: leanness, thinness, spareness
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English emaciate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English emaciation From emaciate + -ion.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: emaciació — the act of making very lean
- French: émaciation — the act of making very lean
- German: Abmagern — the act of making very lean
- German: Abmagerung — the act of making very lean
- Irish: snoí — the act of making very lean
- Japanese: 削痩 (sakusō) — the act of making very lean
- Māori: kaikohinga — the act of making very lean
- Spanish: emaciación — the act of making very lean
- Tagalog: pangangayayat — the act of making very lean
- Bulgarian: мършавост (mǎršavost) — the state of being emaciated
- Catalan: emaciació — the state of being emaciated
- Chinese Mandarin: 憔悴 (qiáocuì) — the state of being emaciated
- French: émaciation — the state of being emaciated
- French: émaciement — the state of being emaciated
- German: Abgemagertheit — the state of being emaciated
- Japanese: 削痩 (sakusō) — the state of being emaciated
- Malayalam: ശോഷണം (śōṣaṇaṁ) — the state of being emaciated
- Malayalam: മെലിച്ചിൽ (meliccil) — the state of being emaciated
- Polish: wychudzenie — the state of being emaciated
- Russian: истоще́ние (istoščénije) — the state of being emaciated