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Fasting vs Starvation - What's the difference?

fasting | starvation |

As nouns the difference between fasting and starvation

is that fasting is abstinence from food while starvation is a condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.

As a verb fasting

is present participle of lang=en.

fasting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • abstinence from food
  • * , The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
    • Immediately after that affair Lady Wondershoot, casting about for exemplary additions to the abuse and fastings she had inflicted, issued a Ukase. She issued it first to her butler, and very suddenly, so that she made him jump.

    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?"