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Meaning of "hyperorexia" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HYPEROREXIA

From hyper- + Greek orexis appetite.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF HYPEROREXIA

ˌhaɪpərɒˈrɛksɪə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HYPEROREXIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hyperorexia 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 HYPEROREXIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hyperorexia in the English dictionary

The definition of hyperorexia in the dictionary is compulsive overeating.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HYPEROREXIA

alexia · anorexia · anoxia · apyrexia · asphyxia · ataraxia · ataxia · banksia · Brixia · cachexia · dyslexia · dyspraxia · hyperprosexia · hyperpyrexia · hypoxia · ixia · orthorexia · paralexia · pyrexia · sexier

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HYPEROREXIA

hypermutable · hypernatraemia · hypernova · hypernovae · hypernym · hypernymy · hyperon · hyperope · hyperopia · hyperopic · hyperosmia · hyperostoses · hyperostosis · hyperostotic · hyperparasite · hyperparasitic · hyperparasitism · hyperphagia · hyperphagic · hyperphrygian

WORDS THAT END LIKE HYPEROREXIA

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

Synonyms and antonyms of hyperorexia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hyperorexia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HYPEROREXIA

Find out the translation of hyperorexia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of hyperorexia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hyperorexia» in English.
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hyperorexia
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hiperorexia
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hyperorexia
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hyperorexia
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فرط الشهية
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hyperorexia
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hyperorexia
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hyperorexia
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hyperorexia
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Hyperorexia
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Hyperorexia
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ja

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過食症
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과식증
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Hyperorexia
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hyperorexia
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பசிமிகைப்பு
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हायपरॉरेक्सिया
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hyperorexia
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hyperorexia
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hyperorexia
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hyperorexia
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hyperorexia
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hyperorexia
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hyperorexia
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hyperorexia
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hyperorexia
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hyperorexia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPEROREXIA»

Discover the use of hyperorexia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hyperorexia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dictionary of Biological Psychology
hyperorexia. Rather antique term indicating over-eating; see BULIMIA NERVOSA ; EATING DISORDERS; HYPERPHAGIA. hyperosmia. Exceptional sensitive olfactory ability; see OLFACTION; SMELL; STEREOCHEMICAL THEORY OF ...
Philip Winn, 2003
2
Psychology - Nutrition: Appetite, Diets, Drinking, Essential ...
This book consists of articles from Wikia.
Source Wikia, 2011
3
The Year Book of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Neurosurgery
Psychogenic Anorexia and Hyperorexia among Siblings. Kai Tolstrup" (Odense, Denmark) studied two families in which the symptom constellation of hyperorexia -anorexia appeared in the children. In family 1, an examination of two sisters ...
‎1954
4
A Dictionary of Psychology
355 hypertonic hyperorexia n. Excessive appetite; another name for 'bulimia (1). The term is usually restricted to cases in which it is not caused by a brain lesion. Compare HYPERPHAGIA. [From Greek hyper over + orexis appetite + -ia ...
Andrew M. Colman, 2009
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The Encyclopedia of Obesity and Eating Disorders, Third Edition
Then in 1894, in Germany, O. Soltmann posited “nutritional neuroses” such as “ hyperorexia,” of which bulimia was taken to be a symptom. According to Soltmann, hyperorexia, a syndrome, might be partly neurotic and partly biological in origin, ...
Dana K. Cassell, David H. Gleaves, 2009
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Writing Size Zero: Figuring Anorexia in Contemporary World ...
We then find hyperorexia nervosa "characterized by a greedy, urging, and compulsive desire for food; excessive food intake, at times preferably in the evening or at night; increase of body weight; vomiting (possibly leading to normal weight or ...
Isabelle Meuret, 2007
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Acta paediatrica scandinavica
As a working-hypothesis obesity was taken to be a direct consequence of a pathologically increased appetite — here called hyperorexia. The primary object was to search for the characteristic family frame as Beuch described it. If 'family ...
‎1953
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Proceedings: of the 13th European Conference on Psychomatic ...
The hyperorexia outlined here has a place among the eating disturbances between Anorexia and Obesity. All together show a compulsive much- eating respectively a hyperphagia. This is a valid for a part of the obesity but also for some ...
Günsel Koptagel-Ilal, Ömer Tuncer, 1981
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Excerpta Medica: Pediatrics
TOLSTRUP K. Child. Hosp., Odense; Odense med. Sch. Board Psychogenic anorexia and hyperorexia among siblings Acta paediatr. (Uppsala) 1952, 41/4 ( 360-372) Detailed analytical observations were made on the siblings of 2 families.
‎1953
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The Military Surgeon: Journal of the Association of Military ...
HYPEROREXIA AND LOSS OF WEIGHT: A PSYCHOSOMATIC CAUSE; REPORT OF A CASE By JOHN BRICE PLASS, M.D. THE PSYCHOTIC STATES: CORRELATIONS OF BIOCHEMICAL AND HISTOLOGIC CHANGES IN. Brown.
‎1949
REFERENCE
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