EMACIATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)

Synonyms:

boniness; bonyness; emaciation; gauntness; maceration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("emaciation" is a kind of...):

leanness; spareness; thinness (the property of having little body fat)

Derivation:

emaciate (grow weak and thin or waste away physically)

emaciate (cause to grow thin or weak)