Definition of Inanetion
In`a*ni"tion (?), n. [F.
inanition, L. inanitio emptiness, fr. inanire to
empty, fr. inanis empty. Cf. Inane.] The
condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the
vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of
food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder
of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result.
Feeble from inanition, inert from
weariness. Landor.
Repletion and inanition may both do harm in two
contrary extremes. Burton.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- emptiness
*1955: One would have said that two children had taken it into their heads to see how many times they could turn before they dropped, and that the people had gathered to watch out of sheer inanition. — Paul Bowles, The Spider's House
*1995: A message on the bathroom shaving glass – / THEYVE TAK – and then the flat tube's inanition. — Anthony Burgess, Byrne
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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