inanition

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “1643, William Slatyer, The Compleat Christian, London, for the author, The Second Part of the Catechism, Section 5, p. 110, 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.”

2. isim A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food, or water or a physiological inability to utilize them, with resulting weakness.

   “It may be reasonably inferred that our baby will first expire of inanition, as being the frailest member of our circle; and that our twins will follow next in order.”

3. isim A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to nausea in existentialist philosophy.

   “There bending over her, with eyes bathed in tears, she watched the progress of her beloved Rosilia's melancholy disorder; she beheld her, pale, exhausted, either in listless inanition, or haunted with the dreadful idea that mental derangement or death would terminate her sufferings!”