Inanition
[,inә'niʃәn]
Definition
(noun.) exhaustion resulting from lack of food.
(noun.) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy.
Typist: Nigel--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Emptiness, vacuity, inanity.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Emptiness, exhaustion, starvation
ANT:Fullness, plethora, repletion
Editor: Pedro
Examples
- I was now nearly sick from inanition, having taken so little the day before. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I perceived that I was sickening from excitement and inanition; neither meat nor drink had passed my lips that day, for I had taken no breakfast. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Well, who is; but who has good music, and amuses people on Sunday evenings, when the whole of New York is dying of inanition. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- And ignorance and folly are inanitions of the soul? Plato. The Republic.
- Again, hunger and thirst are inanitions of the body, ignorance and folly of the soul; and food is the satisfaction of the one, knowledge of the other. Plato. The Republic.
- Look at the matter thus:--Hunger, thirst, and the like, are inanitions of the bodily state? Plato. The Republic.
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