anorexia

English

Anorexic patient, from medical journal Nouvelle Iconographie de la Salpêtrière (1900)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀνορεξία (anorexía), from ἀν- (an-, “without”) + ὄρεξις (órexis, “appetite”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ænəˈɹɛksi.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

anorexia (countable and uncountable, plural anorexias)

1. (especially in medicine) Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease.

   Coordinate term: hyporexia

2. (especially in nonmedical usage) Clipping of anorexia nervosa.
3. (by extension, in combination) Any state of being psychologically starved or deprived of something.

   intimacy anorexia; emotional anorexia

Derived terms

• ana
• anorexia athletica
• anorexia mirabilis
• anorexiant
• anorexic (adj)
• anorexically
• anorexigen
• anorexigenic
• antianorexia
• bigorexia
• bleachorexia
• bulimarexia
• bulimorexia
• carborexia
• corporate anorexia
• drunkorexia
• manorexia
• preanorexic
• pregorexia
• pro-ana
• reverse anorexia nervosa
• sexual anorexia
• sports anorexia
• tanorexia
• wannarexia

Related terms

• anorectic (adj)
• hyporexic

Translations

loss of appetite

• Arabic: قَهَم m (qaham)
• Basque: anorexia (eu)
• Bulgarian: липса на апетит (lipsa na apetit), анорексия (anoreksija)
• Catalan: anorèxia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 厭食症 / 厌食症 (yànshízhèng)

• Czech: anorexie (cs)
• Danish: anoreksi (da)
• Dutch: anorexie (nl)
• Esperanto: anoreksio
• Finnish: anoreksia (fi), ruokahaluttomuus (fi)
• French: anorexie (fr) f
• Galician: anorexia (gl) f
• German: Anorexie (de) f
• Greek: ανορεξία (el) (anorexía)
• Hungarian: anorexia (hu), étvágytalanság (hu)
• Indonesian: anoreksia (id), nirselera (id)
• Italian: anoressia (it) f
• Japanese: 食欲不振 (しょくよくふしん, shokuyokufushin)
• Maori: (mate) māuiui pohokore
• Persian: بی‌اشتهایی
• Polish: anoreksja (pl) f, jadłowstręt (pl) m
• Portuguese: anorexia (pt) f
• Russian: аноре́ксия (ru) f (anoréksija), отсу́тствие аппети́та (otsútstvije appetíta)
• Spanish: anorexia (es)
• Swedish: anorexi (sv) c
• Tagalog: awanggana

anorexia nervosa — see anorexia nervosa

Further reading

• anorexia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Galician

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀνορεξία (anorexía).

Noun

anorexia f (plural anorexias)

1. anorexia (anorexia nervosa)

   Synonym: anorexia nerviosa

Derived terms

• anoréxico

Further reading

• “anorexia”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀνορεξία (anorexía).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.no.ɾekˈsi.ɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.no.ɾekˈsi.ɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.no.ɾekˈsi.a/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.nu.ɾɨˈksi.ɐ/

• Hyphenation: a‧no‧re‧xi‧a

Noun

anorexia f (plural anorexias)

1. anorexia (anorexia nervosa)

   Synonym: anorexia nervosa

Derived terms

• anoréxico

Further reading

• “anorexia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνορεξία (anorexía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anoˈɾeɡsja/ [a.noˈɾeɣ̞.sja]
• Rhymes: -eɡsja
• Syllabification: a‧no‧re‧xia

Noun

anorexia f (plural anorexias)

1. anorexia (anorexia nervosa)

   Synonyms: anorexia mental, anorexia nerviosa

Derived terms

• anoréxico

Further reading

• “anorexia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10