weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy
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exhaustion resulting from lack of food
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Inanition \In`a*ni"tion\, n. [F. inanition, L. inanitio emptiness, fr. inanire to empty, fr. inanis empty. Cf. {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.
Without fresh insights of this kind from today's choreographers, ballet in the U.S. must surely succumb to the inanition that has overtaken it in Europe and the Soviet Union.
The choreography that could save ballet from inanition will have to be at once classical in formulation and daring in sensibility.