different between anorexia vs obesity

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (anorexía), from ??- (an-, “without”) + ?????? (órexis, “appetite”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /æn????ksi.?/

Noun

anorexia (countable and uncountable, plural anorexias)

1. Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease.
2. Anorexia nervosa.

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Further reading

• anorexia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Galician

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (anorexía).

Noun

anorexia f (plural anorexias)

1. anorexia (anorexia nervosa)

   Synonym: anorexia nerviosa

Derived terms

• anoréxico

Further reading

• “anorexia” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (anorexía).

Noun

anorexia f (plural anorexias)

1. anorexia (anorexia nervosa)

   Synonym: anorexia nervosa

Derived terms

• anoréxico

Further reading

• “anorexia” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (anorexía).

Noun

anorexia f (plural anorexias)

1. anorexia (anorexia nervosa)

   Synonyms: anorexia mental, anorexia nerviosa

Derived terms

• anoréxico

Further reading

• “anorexia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From French obésité, from Latin ob?sit?s, from ob?sus (“fat”).

Noun

obesity (countable and uncountable, plural obesities)

1. (pathology) The state of being obese due to an excess of body fat.

Derived terms

• diabesity

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