inanition
pronunciation
How to pronounce inanition in British English:
UK [ˌɪnə'nɪʃən]
How to pronounce inanition in American English:
US [ˌɪnə'nɪʃən]
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- Noun:
- weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy
- exhaustion resulting from lack of food
Word Origin
- inanition (n.)
- c. 1400, from Old French inanition, from Latin inanitionem (nominative inanitio) "emptiness," noun of action from past participle stem of inanire "to empty," from inanis "empty, void, worthless, useless," of uncertain origin.
Example
- 1. There 's no greater inanition than a blank that you looking back over before you get to the destination .
- 2. Chronic poisoning may lead to death from inanition .
- 3. Literary criticism has become a theoretical sermon of inanition , with the ethical and aesthetic value of literary works neglected .
- 4. Say what said to want in the heart that coming out will let mood become a little better , but the inanition in the heart can not be swept , I really dislike that kind of feeling very much .
- 5. Well , who is ; but who has good music , and amuses people on sunday evenings , when the whole of new york is dying of inanition .