noun · countable / uncountable

inanition

inanition · inanitions

пустота, истощение

The act of removing the contents of somethingThe act of removing the contents of something; the state of being empty.

/ɪnəˈnɪʃən/

Meaning

3 senses

(countable, uncountable)The act of removing the contents of something; the state of being empty.
пустота́pustotá
(countable, uncountable)A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food, or water or a physiological inability to utilize them, with resulting weakness.
истоще́ниеistoščénije
exhaustion resulting from lack of food
(countable, uncountable)A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to nausea in existentialist philosophy.

Translations

5 languages

Русский

By meaning 2

emptiness:

state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition:

Origin

From Middle English inanicioun, borrowed from Old French inanition, itself borrowed from L

From Middle English inanicioun, borrowed from Old French inanition, itself borrowed from Late Latin inānītio, from inānīre (“to make empty”), from inānis (“empty, vain”); see inane.

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