anorexian.

Brit.

/ˌanəˈrɛksɪə/, U.S.

/ˌænəˈrɛksiə/

Forms:

α. 1500s– anorexia.

β. 1600s–1700s anorexie, 1600s– anorexy.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French anorexie; Latin anorexia.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French anorexie (1584 in the passage translated in quot. 1591 at sense 1), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin anorexia lack of appetite (6th cent.) < Hellenistic Greek ἀνορεξία lack of appetite < ancient Greek ἀνόρεκτος without appetite (see anorectic adj.) + -ία -ia suffix¹; compare -y suffix³.Compare Italian anoressia (1642 or earlier). Compare the following earlier example of the Greek word (in transliteration) in an English context:1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe ii. f. ii Anorexia is the greke worde. The barbarous worde is Anarexia, In latyn it is named Stomachi distemperamentum. In englyshe it is named a dystemperance of the stomake.

1. Lack or loss of appetite for food; reluctance or refusal to eat; an instance of this.

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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > absence of appetite > [noun]

stomachlessness1657

aphagia1951

1591 King James VI & I tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Furies in Poet. Exercises sig. D8 The Boulime whiles, whiles lacks of meat Through anorexia [Fr. l'Anorexie] will, Dog-hunger whiles, whiles lyes his meat Through bradipepsia still.

1649 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) iv. vi. 689 These are sick of the Anorexia and Apepsy, they have neither appetite nor digestion.

1771 Public Advertiser 11 Oct. Wine is shewn to be the great Preserver of Health, and grand Restorative in most Diseases; particularly, the Plague, malignant Fevers.., the Anorexy or Loss of Appetite.., &c.

1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele I. 329 We bade adieu to anorexy, felt hinc sanitas now.

1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 8 Oct. 768/1 The digestive apparatus furnishes the most striking and best known phenomena [of sea-sickness]: anorexia, adipsia, [etc.].

1963 P. H. Johnson Night & Silence xxiv. 173 He tried to eat it, but was taken by a terrible anorexia.

2010 S. Kean Disappearing Spoon (2011) xv. 258 Cattle that munch on locoweed begin to stagger and stumble and develop fevers, sores, and anorexia.

2. Originally with distinguishing word, as hysterical anorexia, nervous anorexia, etc. A condition originally described as a refusal to eat leading to emaciation in girls and women, later regarded as an eating disorder that may also affect boys and men, of which the main features are persistent limitation of calorie intake (typically leading to subnormal body weight, sometimes to a life-threatening degree), extreme fear of becoming overweight, and distorted self-perception of body weight or shape; = anorexia nervosa n.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > eating disorders

anorexia nervosa1873

bulimarexia1976

bulimia nervosa1979

1873 London Med. Rec. 25 June 385/1 (heading) Lasegue on Hysterical Anorexia.

1873 tr. E. C. Lasègue in Med. Times & Gaz. 6 Sept. 266/2 It is now that is developed that mental perversion, which by itself is almost characteristic, and which justifies the name which I have proposed for want of a better—hysterical anorexia [Fr. anorexie hystérique].

1911 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 May 1220/1 We know that there is such a thing as nervous anorexia, in which people lose the normal healthy desire for food.

1939 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Feb. 238/1 Anorexia had nothing to do Simmonds's disease. All the symptoms were due either to purely psychological factors or to starvation.

1973 Sunday Times 6 May 44/3 (heading) Anorexia—today's wasting disease.

1983 K. Payne Between Ourselves 297 My childhood was a tug of war which climaxed with me getting anorexia when I was seventeen.

2016 Teen Vogue Apr. 95/2 The most commonly discussed eating disorders are bulimia and anorexia.

Compounds

anorexia nervosa n. a condition originally described as a refusal to eat leading to emaciation in girls and women, later regarded as an eating disorder that may also affect boys and men, of which the main features are persistent limitation of calorie intake (typically leading to subnormal body weight, sometimes to a life-threatening degree), extreme fear of becoming overweight, and distorted self-perception of body weight or shape; cf. sense 2. [ < scientific Latin anorexia nervosa (see quot. 1873) < post-classical Latin anorexia anorexia n. + classical Latin nervōsa , feminine of nervōsus nervous adj.]

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > eating disorders

anorexia nervosa1873

bulimarexia1976

bulimia nervosa1979

1873 W. W. Gull Let. 30 Apr. in Trans. Clin. Soc. (1874) 7 v. 26 The case appears to be an extreme instance of what I have proposed to call ‘Apepsia hysterica’, or ‘Anorexia nervosa’.

1939 Psychosomatic Med. 1 335/1 The syndrome of anorexia nervosa.

2011 Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 27/4 Children with anorexia nervosa have an overwhelming fear of putting on weight, or feel compelled to lose weight.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).

单词	anorexia
释义	anorexian. Brit. /ˌanəˈrɛksɪə/, U.S. /ˌænəˈrɛksiə/ Forms: α. 1500s– anorexia. β. 1600s–1700s anorexie, 1600s– anorexy. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French anorexie; Latin anorexia. Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French anorexie (1584 in the passage translated in quot. 1591 at sense 1), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin anorexia lack of appetite (6th cent.) < Hellenistic Greek ἀνορεξία lack of appetite < ancient Greek ἀνόρεκτος without appetite (see anorectic adj.) + -ία -ia suffix¹; compare -y suffix³.Compare Italian anoressia (1642 or earlier). Compare the following earlier example of the Greek word (in transliteration) in an English context:1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe ii. f. ii Anorexia is the greke worde. The barbarous worde is Anarexia, In latyn it is named Stomachi distemperamentum. In englyshe it is named a dystemperance of the stomake. 1. Lack or loss of appetite for food; reluctance or refusal to eat; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > absence of appetite > [noun] stomachlessness1657 aphagia1951 1591 King James VI & I tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Furies in Poet. Exercises sig. D8 The Boulime whiles, whiles lacks of meat Through anorexia [Fr. l'Anorexie] will, Dog-hunger whiles, whiles lyes his meat Through bradipepsia still. 1649 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) iv. vi. 689 These are sick of the Anorexia and Apepsy, they have neither appetite nor digestion. 1771 Public Advertiser 11 Oct. Wine is shewn to be the great Preserver of Health, and grand Restorative in most Diseases; particularly, the Plague, malignant Fevers.., the Anorexy or Loss of Appetite.., &c. 1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele I. 329 We bade adieu to anorexy, felt hinc sanitas now. 1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 8 Oct. 768/1 The digestive apparatus furnishes the most striking and best known phenomena [of sea-sickness]: anorexia, adipsia, [etc.]. 1963 P. H. Johnson Night & Silence xxiv. 173 He tried to eat it, but was taken by a terrible anorexia. 2010 S. Kean Disappearing Spoon (2011) xv. 258 Cattle that munch on locoweed begin to stagger and stumble and develop fevers, sores, and anorexia. 2. Originally with distinguishing word, as hysterical anorexia, nervous anorexia, etc. A condition originally described as a refusal to eat leading to emaciation in girls and women, later regarded as an eating disorder that may also affect boys and men, of which the main features are persistent limitation of calorie intake (typically leading to subnormal body weight, sometimes to a life-threatening degree), extreme fear of becoming overweight, and distorted self-perception of body weight or shape; = anorexia nervosa n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > eating disorders anorexia nervosa1873 bulimarexia1976 bulimia nervosa1979 1873 London Med. Rec. 25 June 385/1 (heading) Lasegue on Hysterical Anorexia. 1873 tr. E. C. Lasègue in Med. Times & Gaz. 6 Sept. 266/2 It is now that is developed that mental perversion, which by itself is almost characteristic, and which justifies the name which I have proposed for want of a better—hysterical anorexia [Fr. anorexie hystérique]. 1911 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 May 1220/1 We know that there is such a thing as nervous anorexia, in which people lose the normal healthy desire for food. 1939 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Feb. 238/1 Anorexia had nothing to do Simmonds's disease. All the symptoms were due either to purely psychological factors or to starvation. 1973 Sunday Times 6 May 44/3 (heading) Anorexia—today's wasting disease. 1983 K. Payne Between Ourselves 297 My childhood was a tug of war which climaxed with me getting anorexia when I was seventeen. 2016 Teen Vogue Apr. 95/2 The most commonly discussed eating disorders are bulimia and anorexia. Compounds anorexia nervosa n. a condition originally described as a refusal to eat leading to emaciation in girls and women, later regarded as an eating disorder that may also affect boys and men, of which the main features are persistent limitation of calorie intake (typically leading to subnormal body weight, sometimes to a life-threatening degree), extreme fear of becoming overweight, and distorted self-perception of body weight or shape; cf. sense 2. [ < scientific Latin anorexia nervosa (see quot. 1873) < post-classical Latin anorexia anorexia n. + classical Latin nervōsa , feminine of nervōsus nervous adj.] ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > eating disorders anorexia nervosa1873 bulimarexia1976 bulimia nervosa1979 1873 W. W. Gull Let. 30 Apr. in Trans. Clin. Soc. (1874) 7 v. 26 The case appears to be an extreme instance of what I have proposed to call ‘Apepsia hysterica’, or ‘Anorexia nervosa’. 1939 Psychosomatic Med. 1 335/1 The syndrome of anorexia nervosa. 2011 Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 27/4 Children with anorexia nervosa have an overwhelming fear of putting on weight, or feel compelled to lose weight. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022). < n.1591
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