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Webster 1913 Edition
Inanition
Inˊa-ni′tion
,Noun.
The condition of being inane; emptiness; lack of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from lack of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result.
Feeble from
inanition
, inert from weariness. Landor.
Repletion and
inanition
may both do harm in two contrary extremes. Burton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Inanition
INANI'TION
,Noun.
Emptiness; want of fullness; as inanition of body or of the vessels.
Definition 2024
inanition
inanition
English
Noun
inanition (countable and uncountable, plural inanitions)
- Emptiness.
- (medicine) A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food or water, or a physiological inability to utilize them; starvation.
- (philosophy) A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to the Existentialist Philosophy state of "nausea".
Quotations
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Translations
Emptiness
A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food or water, or a physiological inability to utilize them; starvation
A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to the Existentialist Philosophy state of "nausea"