emaciation
noun
emaciation is a noun meaning “The act of making very lean” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-M-A-C-I-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 23 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of emaciation is emaciations.
What does emaciation mean?
noun
- 1
The act of making very lean.
- 2
The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce emaciation?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-emaciation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of emaciation
- emaciations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is emaciation?
Emaciation appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Emaciation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | émaciation , émaciement |
| German | Abmagern, Abmagerung , Abgemagertheit |
| Spanish | emaciación |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does emaciation come from?
From emaciate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).