- starvation, famishment - a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
--1 is a kind of hunger, hungriness
Derived form: verb starve1 - starvation, starving - the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine; "the beseigers used starvation to induce surrender"; "they were charged with the starvation of children in their care"
--2 is a kind of privation, deprivation
Derived form: verb starve3