eating disordernoun [ C ]
uk/ˈiː.tɪŋ dɪˌsɔː.dər/us/ˈiː.t̬ɪŋ dɪˌsɔːr.dɚ/a mental illness in which people eat far too little or far too much food and are unhappy with their bodies
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- Eating disorders mean eating compulsively because of a distorted body image.
- Occasionally a neurotic individual with a pre-existing eating disorder will become obsessed with fasting and colon cleansing as a justification to legitimize their compulsion.
- This is bulimia, the eating disorder discussed earlier.