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noun, feminine

inanition

/i.na.ni.sjɔ̃/

noun, feminine/i.na.ni.sjɔ̃/plural: inanitions

inanition (state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition with resulting weakness)

mourir d'inanitionto die of inanition

Inherited from Old French inanition, itself borrowed from Late Latin inānītio, from inānīre (“to make empty”), from inānis (“empty, vain”).