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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease.
  • noun Anorexia nervosa.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Want of appetite.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Want of appetite, without a loathing of food.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease.
  • noun Anorexia nervosa.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek anorexiā : an-, without; see a– + orexis, appetite (from oregein, to reach out for; see reg- in Indo-European roots).]

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From Ancient Greek ἀνορεξία, from ἀν- ("without") + ὄρεξις ("appetite").

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