1. the exhausted condition that results from lack of food and water
Usage: formal; medical
2. the quality or state of being empty or lacking substance
Usage: formal; literary

Examples

• The refugees suffered from inanition after days without food.
• Medical experts warned that prolonged fasting could lead to inanition.
• The patient’s inanition was evident from his gaunt appearance.
• The critic described the novel as suffering from intellectual inanition.
• Years of drought left the land in a state of inanition.
• The philosopher spoke of the spiritual inanition of modern society.