inanition /ɪnəˈnɪʃən/ noun3 •A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food, or water or a physiological inability to utilize them, with resulting weakness.It may be reasonably inferred that our baby will first expire of inanition, as being the frailest member of our circle; and that our twins will follow next in order. — 1849 •The act of removing the contents of something; the state of being empty.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. — 1643 •A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to nausea in existentialist philosophy."Well, who is; but who has good music, and amuses people on Sunday evenings, when the whole of New York is dying of inanition." — 1920 formsinanitions
