The state of being lifeless; lack of animation or vital force; death.
From exanimate + -tion (Latin -tio, suffix forming abstract nouns). Archaic noun expressing the condition or process of losing life and animation.
Words ending in -tion are among the most common in English because Latin made it easy to nominate (turn into a noun) any action by adding -tion, which is why we have thousands of them—it's a wildly productive suffix that turned Latin verbs into concept-words.
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