famishment
State of starving
Famishment is the state of being famished—extreme hunger or starvation.
The word is rarely used; famished and starving handle the work in most contexts.
When it appears, famishment typically emphasizes prolonged deprivation rather than momentary hunger: The refugees showed signs of famishment after weeks without adequate food.
Extremely hungry, insatiable
- pangsSudden sharp sensations
- gnawingPersistent biting action
- appetiteDesire for food
- cravingsIntense desires for something
fasting · inanition · peckish · voracity · emptiness · hollowness · nourishment · satiety
Insufficient dietary intake
- wastingUsing poorly, inefficiently
- emaciationExtreme bodily thinness
- cachexiaSevere illness-induced wasting
- stuntingArresting natural growth
underweight · gauntness · skeletal · micronutrient · anemia · scurvy · beriberi · pellagra
Insufficiency of something needed
- deficiencyLack of something needed
- wantTo desire something
- lackDeficiency or absence
- insufficiencyShortfall in amount needed
shortage · dearth · privation · paucity · absence · meagerness · bareness · undersupply
Extreme physical or emotional pain
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
- painBodily or emotional distress
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
misery · affliction · woe · despair · helplessness · weakening · debilitation · exhaustion
State of extreme deprivation
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- pauperismCondition of being destitute
neediness · hardship · beggary · squalor · underprivileged · breadline · rations · subsistence
ravenous
Extremely hungry, insatiable
cravings · fasting · inanition · peckish · voracity · emptiness · hollowness · nourishment · satiety · feasting
undernourishment
Insufficient dietary intake
- wastingUsing poorly, inefficiently
- emaciationExtreme bodily thinness
- cachexiaSevere illness-induced wasting
stunting · underweight · gauntness · skeletal · micronutrient · anemia · scurvy · beriberi · pellagra · malnourished
scarcity
Insufficiency of something needed
- deficiencyLack of something needed
- wantTo desire something
- lackDeficiency or absence
insufficiency · shortage · dearth · privation · paucity · absence · meagerness · bareness · undersupply · sparsity
agony
Extreme physical or emotional pain
distress · misery · affliction · woe · despair · helplessness · weakening · debilitation · exhaustion · languishing
impoverishment
State of extreme deprivation
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- penuryExtreme lack of money
pauperism · neediness · hardship · beggary · squalor · underprivileged · breadline · rations · subsistence · hand-to-mouth
- hungerhunger, hungry, starving, ravenous, hunger pangs
famishmentsatiation
State of complete fulfillment
satiety · repletion · fullness · repleteness · surfeit
famishmentsatiation
State of complete fulfillment
anorexia · loss of appetite · food aversion · satisfaction · hatred
famine, starvation, famished, undernourished, famish, famines, famishing, famishes