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Word of the Day for Friday, March 13, 2009inanition \in-uh-NISH-uhn\, noun: 1. The condition or quality of being empty. The problem that faces British universities is not that they have become fat and lazy, but that they have been starved beyond lean efficiency into inanition. Even without, or before, revolution or foreign invasion, states can decline of their own inanition. Sadly, though not surprisingly, convention speeches designed to rouse voters from their indifference only exacerbate the country's inanition. Inanition derives from Latin inanitio, "emptiness," from inanire, "to make empty," from inanis, "empty." It is related to inane, "lacking sense or intelligence; pointless." | |||||||||
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