exhausture or exhaustion

[ostap77]

What's the difference between these two forms? Both nouns but would they be intechangeable?

"The exhaustion/exhauster of natural resources"? "Being sick with cancer, he was going to die of exhausture/exhaustion"?

 

[Uncle M]

From Uncle M (not a teacher)

As far as I am aware, there is no such word as 'exhausture' in UK English.

 

[ostap77]

From Uncle M (not a teacher)

As far as I am aware, there is no such word as 'exhausture' in UK English.

If you look it up in a dictionary, it sure is going to give you these two noun defenitions. Being a non-native speaker, it got me wondering if there would be a difference?

 

[bhaisahab]

If you look it up in a dictionary, it sure is going to give you these two noun defenitions. Being a non-native speaker, it got me wondering if there would be a difference?

Which dictionary did you find "exhausture" in? It doesn't exist in BrE.

 

[Rover_KE]

I, too, doubted the existence of exhausture.

Yes, it is in some dictionaries*, meaning exhaustion, but as I've never heard of it in 70 years as a native speaker and wide reader I advise you to forget it.

I've forgotten it already.

Rover


*

1. exhausture: Wordnik [home, info]
2. Exhausture: Dictionary.com [home, info]
3. Exhausture: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
4. exhausture: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
5. Exhausture: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
6. exhausture: Free Dictionary [home, info]
7. Exhausture: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

(OneLook dictionary search)

 

[ostap77]

I, too, doubted the existence of exhausture.

Yes, it is in some dictionaries*, meaning exhaustion, but as I've never heard of it in 70 years as a native speaker and wide reader I advise you to forget it.

I've forgotten it already.

Rover

*

1. exhausture: Wordnik [home, info]
2. Exhausture: Dictionary.com [home, info]
3. Exhausture: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
4. exhausture: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
5. Exhausture: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
6. exhausture: Free Dictionary [home, info]
7. Exhausture: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

I looked it up in my Webster. It just says there is such a word but doesn't give any clear definition. What would be exhauster?

 

[Rover_KE]

An exhauster would be somebody who exhausts.

You can forget that, too.

 

[ostap77]

An exhauster would be somebody who exhausts.

You can forget that, too.

Someone who you have deep feelings for can be "exhauster":-D? Can I call a hard job an exhauster?

 

[Rover_KE]

Someone who you have deep feelings for can be "exhauster"? No.

Can I call a hard job an exhauster? You'd probably be the first person in history to do so.

I still say forget it.

Rover

 

[Barb_D]

I'm pretty sure that 99.9% of native speakers would assume you were making a mistake if you used it in any context whatsoever.