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Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.
Celia Imrie

Meaning of "anorexia" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ANOREXIA

Via New Latin from Greek, from an- + orexis appetite.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ANOREXIA

anorexia  [ˌænɒˈrɛksɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANOREXIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Anorexia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ANOREXIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of anorexia in the English dictionary

The definition of anorexia in the dictionary is loss of appetite. Other definition of anorexia is Also called: anorexia nervosa,. a disorder characterized by fear of becoming fat and refusal of food, leading to debility and even death.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANOREXIA


alexia
əˈlɛksɪə
anoxia
ænˈɒksɪə
apyrexia
ˌæpaɪˈrɛksɪə
asphyxia
æsˈfɪksɪə
ataraxia
ˌætəˈræksɪə
ataxia
əˈtæksɪə
banksia
ˈbæŋksɪə
Brixia
ˈbrɪksɪə
cachexia
kəˈkɛksɪə
dyslexia
dɪsˈlɛksɪə
dyspraxia
dɪsˈpræksɪə
hyperorexia
ˌhaɪpərɒˈrɛksɪə
hyperprosexia
ˌhaɪpəprɒˈsɛksɪə
hyperpyrexia
ˌhaɪpəpaɪˈrɛksɪə
hypoxia
haɪˈpɒksɪə
ixia
ˈɪksɪə
orthorexia
ˈɔːθəˌrɛksɪə
paralexia
ˌpærəˈlɛksɪə
pyrexia
paɪˈrɛksɪə
sexier
ˈseksɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANOREXIA

anonymously
anonymousness
anopheles
anopheline
anopia
anopsia
anorak
anorectal
anorectic
anoretic
anorexia nervosa
anorexic
anorexigenic
anorthic
anorthite
anorthitic
anorthosite
anorthositic
anosmatic
anosmia

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANOREXIA

corporate anorexia
dystaxia
echopraxia
eutaxia
heterotaxia
locomotor ataxia
panmixia
pleonexia
pyrrhuloxia
pyxia
wuxia

Synonyms and antonyms of anorexia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «anorexia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANOREXIA

Find out the translation of anorexia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of anorexia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «anorexia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

厌食
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

anorexia
570 millions of speakers

English

anorexia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एनोरेक्सिया
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

فقدان الشَّهِية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

анорексия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

anorexia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্ষুধাহীনতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

anorexie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Anoreksia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Magersucht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

拒食症
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

식욕 부진증
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Anorexia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chứng biếng ăn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பசியற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भूक मंदावणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

anoreksi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

anoressia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

anoreksja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

анорексія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

anorexie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανορεξία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

anorexia
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

anorexi
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

anoreksi
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of anorexia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANOREXIA»

The term «anorexia» is quite widely used and occupies the 25.753 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANOREXIA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about anorexia

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10 QUOTES WITH «ANOREXIA»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word anorexia.
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Kate Beckinsale
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Courteney Cox
I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.
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Marianne Faithfull
I was anorexic in the '60s and '70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.
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Tracey Gold
Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.
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Tracey Gold
I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.
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Tracey Gold
I had a very public battle with anorexia.
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Marya Hornbacher
Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they are also becoming more common in racial groups previously thought to be impervious to the problem.
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Celia Imrie
Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.
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Celia Imrie
Anorexia is an awful thing, but you get yourself into it, and only you can get yourself out of it.
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Caroline Knapp
Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANOREXIA»

Discover the use of anorexia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to anorexia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
A vivid, honest, and emotionally wrenching memoir, Wasted is the story of one woman's travels to reality's darker side -- and her decision to find her way back on her own terms.
Marya Hornbacher, 2009
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Anorexia Nervosa: A Survival Guide for Families, Friends and ...
What can we do about it? This book is an attempt to answer some of these questions. Unusually for a book on anorexia nervosa, this book includes sections for parents and other carers alongside a section for the sufferer herself.
Janet Treasure, 2013
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Decoding Anorexia: How Breakthroughs in Science Offer Hope ...
Long thought to be a psychosocial disease of fickle teens, this book alters the way anorexia is understood and treated and gives patients, their doctors, and their family members hope.
Carrie Arnold, 2012
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Answers to Anorexia: A Breakthrough Nutritional Treatment ...
A breakthrough anorexia treatment plan that's successfully helped many patients recover by correcting nutritional deficiencies.
James M. Greenblatt, 2010
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Anorexia
Describes anorexia nervosa, including causes, who is at risk, symptoms, and where to go to get help.
Stephanie Watson, 2007
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Anorexia
Describes the causes and characteristics of anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder, and offers strategies for dealing with your own or others' anorexia.
Bonnie Graves, 2000
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Biting Anorexia: A Firsthand Account of an Internal War
In this searingly honest memoir, Biting Anorexia, law student and recovered anorexic Lucy Howard-Taylor tells the story of her descent into anorexia and major depression and her remarkable recovery.
Lucy Howard-Taylor, 2009
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Anorexia Nervosa: Let Me be
The theme of this text is the enduring relationship of anorexia nervosa to the unfolding of puberty, which transcends and shapes the input of "fashion".
Arthur Hamilton Crisp, 1995
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Holy Anorexia
Examines the lives of over two hundred holy women who lived in Italy between 1200 and the present, and argues that many saints suffered from anorexia nervosa Is there a resemblance between the contemporary anorexic teenager in her single ...
Rudolph M. Bell, 1987
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Sexual Anorexia: Overcoming Sexual Self-Hatred
Author Dr. Patrick Carnes begins by defining sexual anorexia and demonstrating how it and its parallel disorder, sexual addiction and compulsivity, often arise from a background of childhood sexual trauma, neglect, and other forms of abuse, ...
Patrick Carnes, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANOREXIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term anorexia is used in the context of the following news items.
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Anorexia treatment for daughter prompts mother's 300km …
Anorexia treatment for Calgary teen costing family $40K per month. Sandy Henry's daughter Savannah has been battling anorexia for six years, ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
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Australian teen reveals moving story of overcoming Anorexia
Australian teen tells her story about her battle with Anorexia over four years and almost losing my life. England's World Cup lionesses arrive. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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St. Cloud woman's insights from anorexia journey
St. Cloud resident Kelly Doss sees anorexia as a slow form of suicide. At one point more than 10 years ago, she was severely underweight and ... «St. Cloud Times, Jul 15»
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How Marilou overcame anorexia and fell in love with food again
That's when her struggle with anorexia began. It wasn't until five years later, when she started losing her hair and stopped menstruating, that ... «Yahoo Canada Shine On, Jul 15»
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Anorexia relapse sparks book idea
Then 26, O'Neill was working at Elle magazine in Manhattan and had recently started to relapse back into the anorexia she first suffered from at ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
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Anorexia and rape are men's problems too
Anorexia and rape are men's problems too. Worried man looking at scales. Eating disorders, like rape and sexual violence, are not confined to ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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40-Pound Anorexic Woman Who Begged for Help Is Getting Better …
Rachael Farrokh was down to just 40 pounds when she pleaded for help to get her life back. After battling anorexia for years, she had finally ... «Cosmopolitan.com, Jul 15»
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A "cardboard cutout" saved me from anorexia
Paola Maria Maggi, born in 1968, has a gentle but firm voice as she tells us by phone that she escaped the tunnel of anorexia with her head ... «West - Welfare Society Territory, Jul 15»
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Teenager develops anorexia over obsession with calorie counting app
'We were just playing this awful waiting game [for a bed] and with every day that passed anorexia was getting its claws deeper into Beth.'. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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Woman Dying From Anorexia Stands Up for the First Time in Months
Rachael Farrokh first made headlines in May when a video of the anorexic 37-year-old went viral. Now receiving life-saving treatment at a ... «Life & Style Weekly, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Anorexia [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/anorexia>. Apr 2024 ».
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