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IGNAVIA :  noun  laziness, torpor. Compare NESCIENCE, NIHILISCIENT

. . . a place sunk in blind ignavia. . . .

--Theroux, Darconville's Cat, p. 163.

INANITION :  noun  a starved condition, a wasting away due to malnutrition. Compare ANORECTIC, CACHECTIC, DYSCRASE, MARASMIC, MARCESCENCE, TABESCENT

. . . not only must he contend with the sun, sandfleas, dysentery and fever, but with inanition as well. The Moors have . . . apparently decided to put him on a stringent diet.

--Boyle, Water Music, p. 8.

The vagina starts to die of inanition, to falter from hunger; a hundred men with inferior sperm cannot feed it.

--Durrell, Constance, p. 302.

INVOLUCRUM :  noun  literally, an "envelope"; a sheath. See GLANDES

IRRUMPENT :  adj  bursting inward or breaking in. See AGONAL. Compare DEHISCENCE, DISSILIENT, ERUMPENT .