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English
Etymology
From famish + -ment.
Pronunciation
Noun
famishment (countable and uncountable, plural famishments)
- (now literary) The state or process of being famished.
- Synonyms: hunger, inanition, malnourishment, starvation
c. 1605, John Davies, “I said unto Laughter, what art thou mad?”, in Wittes Pilgrimage:Sith you will not attend true Wisedoms Words,
Laugh and bee fatt, sith al you touch is Gold,
Though that foode your Soules famishment affordes.
1838, Authentic Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Boston: Isaac Knapp, Appendix, page 106:[…] among the French planters, the slaves are in a condition of almost utter famishment during the great portion of the year.
1957, James Purdy, “The Pupil”, in The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy, New York: Liveright, published 2013, page 682:As the young Cuban tasted his flesh, his tropical appetite long depressed by the North American dryness suddenly revived, and brought to his mind the thought of his long famishment.
1991, Ben Okri, The Famished Road, New York: Nan A. Talese, published 1992, Section 1, Book 5, Chapter 2, p. 329:He churned the emptiness of my stomach, and stirred the fury of my famishment.
- (obsolete) Famine.