Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Inanition

Inanition , noun

[French inanition, Latin inanitio emptiness, from inanire to empty, from inanis empty. Compare Inane.]

The condition of being inane; emptiness; lack of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from lack of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result.
Feeble from inanition, inert from weariness. — Landor
Repletion and inanition may both do harm in two contrary extremes. — Burton