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Vinony

emaciation

noun

  1. extreme weight loss and unnatural thinness due to a loss of subcutaneous fat
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noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English emaciate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English emaciation From emaciate + -ion.

  1. The act of making very lean.
  2. The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.

    “In youth he must have been singularly handsome, but years and care had left their vestiges on his noble features, which were thin even to emaciation.”