Inanition

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Exhaustion, as from lack of nourishment or vitality.
  • n. The condition or quality of being empty.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Emptiness.
  • n. A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food or water, or a physiological inability to utilize them; starvation.
  • n. A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to the Existentialist Philosophy state of "nausea".
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The condition or consequence of being inane or empty; hence, exhaustion from lack of nourishment, either physical or mental; starvation due to deficiency or mal-assimilation of food.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy
  • n. exhaustion resulting from lack of food
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    weakness    exhaustion   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    emptiness    exhaustion   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    drowsiness    sleepiness    thriftlessness    inattention    laziness   
     
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