Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Exhaustion has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
extreme fatigue
"After hiking up the mountain, she sat down on a rock and confessed that exhaustion had finally overtaken her."
serious weakening and loss of energy
"After hiking up the mountain without water, I collapsed from sheer exhaustion."
the act of exhausting something entirely
"After hours of drilling, the team reached a state of exhaustion where every drop of water in the well had been drained dry."
The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.
"After running on a treadmill for two hours straight, I hit exhaustion and could no longer keep my legs moving forward."