emaciation
C2CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Extreme thinness and wasting of the body caused by lack of nutrition or disease.
The degree of emaciation on examination confirmed that his food intake had been inadequate for months.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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