emaciationEnglishOxford English Thesaurusemaciation noun animal rescue workers took away goats suffering from emaciation: thinness, boniness, scrawniness, skinniness, scragginess; starvation, underfeeding, undernourishment; cadaverousnessgauntness, haggardness, attenuation, atrophy; informal anorexia; archaic phthisis. ▷antonyms obesity.emaciation Oxford Dictionary of English