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The act of removing the contents of something; the state of being empty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: emptying, emptiness
Antonyms: repletion
A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food, or water or a physiological inability to utilize them, with resulting weakness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
Examples
- 1955, Samuel Beckett and Patrick Bowles (translators), Molloy 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: starvation, cachexia
Antonyms: none provided
A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to nausea in existentialist philosophy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
exhaustion resulting from lack of food
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: exhaustion
weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: lassitude, lethargy, slackness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: weakness
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.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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French:
ineptie
— emptiness
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French:
vacuité
— emptiness
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Irish:
foilmhe
— emptiness
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Romanian:
goliciune
— emptiness
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Russian:
пустота́
(pustotá)
— emptiness
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Bulgarian:
слабост
(slabost)
— state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition
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Bulgarian:
изтощ
(iztošt)
— state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition
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Bulgarian:
изтощение
(iztoštenie)
— state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition
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French:
inanition
— state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition
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Portuguese:
inanição
— state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition
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Romanian:
inanitie
— state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition
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Russian:
истоще́ние
(istoščénije)
— state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition
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Spanish:
inanición
— state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition
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Turkish:
zafiyet
— state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition
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Turkish:
açlık
— state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition
