inanition

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɪnəˈnɪʃən/ === Noun === inanition (countable and uncountable, plural inanitions) The act of removing the contents of something; the state of being empty. Synonyms: emptying, emptiness Antonym: repletion 1643, William Slatyer, The Compleat Christian, London, for the author, The Second Part of the Catechism, Section 5, p. 110,[2] 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. (medicine) A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food, or water or a physiological inability to utilize them, with resulting weakness. Synonyms: starvation, cachexia 1955, Samuel Beckett and Patrick Bowles (translators), Molloy by Samuel Beckett, Part I, in Three Novels, New York: Grove, 1959, p. 202,[5] And I who a fortnight before would joyfully have reckoned how long I could survive on the provisions that remained, probably with reference to the question of calories and vitamins, and established in my head a series of menus asymptotically approaching nutritional zero, was now content to note feebly that I should soon be dead of inanition. (philosophy) A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to nausea in existentialist philosophy. ==== Translations ==== == French == === Etymology === Inherited from Old French inanition, itself borrowed from Late Latin inānītio, from inānīre (“to make empty”), from inānis (“empty, vain”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /i.na.ni.sjɔ̃/ === Noun === inanition f (plural inanitions) inanition (state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition with resulting weakness) mourir d'inanition ― to die of inanition ==== Related terms ==== inanité === Further reading === “inanition”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012