In literature, "inanition" is often employed to evoke a sense of extreme depletion—whether of physical sustenance, emotional energy, or creative vitality. Authors use it literally to describe states of starvation or exhaustion—bodies succumbing to lack of nourishment [1][2][3]—but also metaphorically to depict environments, ideas, or relationships that wither from neglect, indifference, or the absence of stimulating forces [4][5][6]. In some narratives, it conveys the haunting emptiness of a life or society drained of hope or passion, suggesting that even abstract qualities like desire and reason can starve into nothingness [7][8].