Definition

Noun: * Extreme leanness or thinness, typically resulting from illness, starvation, or severe physical wasting. It describes a state where the body has lost a significant amount of muscle and fat, often making bones prominent.

Usage

• "Emaciation" is a formal or medical term used to describe a severe and unhealthy physical condition.
• It is often used in clinical, humanitarian, or descriptive contexts to indicate serious malnutrition or disease.
• It functions as a non-count noun (uncountable noun) describing a state or condition.

Examples

• The photographs from the famine camp showed the severe emaciation of the children.
• The advanced stage of the disease was marked by progressive weakness and emaciation.
• Animal rescuers were shocked by the dog's level of emaciation when they found it.

Advanced Usage

• "To suffer from emaciation": to experience the condition of being extremely thin due to poor health.
  • Many prisoners of war suffered from severe emaciation due to lack of food.

Variants and Related Words

• Emaciated (adjective): Describing a person or animal that is abnormally thin or weak from illness or lack of food.
  • The emaciated patient was immediately given nutritional support.

Synonyms

• Gauntness: Extreme thinness, especially from hunger or age, often with a bony appearance.
• Wasting: The process or result of becoming progressively weaker and thinner, typically due to disease.
• Atrophy: A medical term for the wasting away or decrease in size of a body part, often from disease or lack of use.

Antonyms

• Obesity: The condition of being grossly fat or overweight.
• Plumpness: Having a full, rounded shape.
• Corpulence: The state of being fat.

Noun

1. extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)