inanition

  1. Noun.  Emptiness.
  2. Noun.  (medicine) A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food or water, or a physiological inability to utilize them; starvation.
  3. Noun.  (philosophy) A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to the Existentialist Philosophy state of "nausea".

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