Difference between Inanition and Slackness

What is the difference between Inanition and Slackness?

Inanition as a noun is emptiness. while Slackness as a noun is the state of being slack; the quality of having slack.

Inanition

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Emptiness. A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food or water, or a physiological inability to utilize them; starvation. A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to the Existentialist Philosophy state of "nausea" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism#Sartre.2C_Camus_and_the_French_existentialists].

Slackness

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The state of being slack; the quality of having slack.

We hope you now know whether to use Inanition or Slackness in your sentence.

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