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Famishment vs Starvation - What's the difference?

famishment | starvation |

As nouns the difference between famishment and starvation

is that famishment is starvation; the fact or process of being famished while starvation is a condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.

famishment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Starvation; the fact or process of being famished.
  • (obsolete) Famine.
  • *1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Mark XIII:
  • *:And there shalbe erthquakes, in all quarters, and famysshment , and troubles.

    • starvation

    English

    (wikipedia starvation)

    Noun

  • a condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
    • "We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits and herbs and game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a land of plenty possibly only a few hundred yards away? We have the means for navigating a subterranean river. Are we too cowardly to utilize this means?"