inanition
Weakness from starvation
Inanition is exhaustion from lack of nourishment—the wasting that comes from not eating.
The word appears in medical and literary contexts: The castaway was near death from inanition.
By extension, inanition describes any state of emptiness or enfeeblement from deprivation: the spiritual inanition of modern life.
Severe food shortage
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- starvePerish from hunger
- famishedIntensely, painfully hungry
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
food scarcity · deprivation · underfed · pangs · hungering · ravenous · starving · privation
Using poorly, inefficiently
- gauntnessExtreme, angular thinness
- skeletalOf or like bones
- thinnessState of minimal width
- cachexiaSevere illness-induced wasting
atrophy · haggard · scrawny · sunken · shriveled · withered · drawn · bony
Reduction of supply
- enervationLoss of vigor
- debilityImpaired strength or vitality
- prostrationUtter physical or mental depletion
- collapseSudden structural failure
drained · sapped · spent · weakness · feebleness · infirmity · languor · lassitude
Absence of substance
- vacuityUtter emptiness or blankness
- hollownessState of being empty inside
- barrennessInability to bear fruit
- voidWithout legal effect
meaninglessness · ennui · apathy · purposelessness · desolation · aridity · sterility · futility
Lack of something needed
- undernourishmentInsufficient dietary intake
- malnourishmentInadequate dietary intake
- beriberiVitamin B1 deficiency disease
- pellagraNiacin-lack illness
rickets · scurvy · undernutrition · malabsorption · nutritional · micronutrient · anemia · goiter
famine
Severe food shortage
fasting · food scarcity · deprivation · underfed · pangs · hungering · ravenous · starving · privation · want
wasting
Using poorly, inefficiently
cachexia · atrophy · haggard · scrawny · sunken · shriveled · withered · drawn · bony · cadaverous
depletion
Reduction of supply
- enervationLoss of vigor
- debilityImpaired strength or vitality
- prostrationUtter physical or mental depletion
collapse · drained · sapped · spent · weakness · feebleness · infirmity · languor · lassitude · listlessness
emptiness
Absence of substance
- vacuityUtter emptiness or blankness
- hollownessState of being empty inside
- barrennessInability to bear fruit
void · meaninglessness · ennui · apathy · purposelessness · desolation · aridity · sterility · futility · vapidity
deficiency
Lack of something needed
- undernourishmentInsufficient dietary intake
- malnourishmentInadequate dietary intake
- beriberiVitamin B1 deficiency disease
pellagra · rickets · scurvy · undernutrition · malabsorption · nutritional · micronutrient · anemia · goiter
inanitionsatiety
State of being full
repletion · nourishment · satiation · fullness · nutrition
inanitionvigor
Active physical strength
vitality · robustness · energy · strength · vigorousness
inanitioninterest
Attention, stake, or fee
engagement · enthusiasm · zeal · passion · animation