Definition of "emaciation"

emaciation

noun
countable and uncountable, plural emaciations
1. The act of making very lean.
2. The state of being emaciated or reduced to excessive leanness; an excessively lean condition.
  Quotations
  In youth he must have been singularly handsome, but years and care had left their vestiges on his noble features, which were thin even to emaciation.
  1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Age and Youth”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 13