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Word: inanition
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Noun:
- Emptiness.
- medicine A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food or water, or a physiological inability to utilize them; starvation.
- philosophy A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to the Existentialist Philosophy state of "nausea" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism#Sartre.2C_Camus_and_the_French_existentialists].
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