fogyását

Fogyását is a Hungarian noun phrase that denotes the process of wasting away, decline, or depletion. It derives from the noun fogyás, which means weight loss, thinning, or reduction, and reflects the idea of something diminishing in size, amount, function, or vitality. The term is used in both literal and figurative senses: medically to describe physical wasting, and more broadly to describe depletion of resources, population, energy, or influence.

In medical contexts, a common reference is unintentional weight loss, sometimes described with terms like cachexia when describing illness-related wasting. Outside medicine, fogyás can refer to the gradual reduction of bodily mass, but also to non-physical declines, for example a decline in a company’s assets, a population’s numbers, or the strength of a phenomenon over time.

Grammatically, fogyását is the definite accusative form of fogyás (the wasting away) used when the phrase functions as the direct object in a sentence. For example: "A beteg gyors fogyását tapasztalta" (The patient experienced rapid wasting away). Other inflected forms appear in different syntactic roles, such as fogyása (nominative), fogyását (definite object), or fogyásának (possessive/genitive).

See also: fogyás (weight loss, wasting), fogyasztás (consumption), leépülés (deterioration).