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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, from a- + orexis appetite, from oregein Date: 1598 1. loss of appetite especially when prolonged 2. anorexia nervosa

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a lack or loss of appetite for food. 2 (in full anorexia nervosa) a psychological illness, esp. in young women, characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat. Etymology: LL f. Gk f. an- not + orexis appetite

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Anorexia An`o*rex"i*a, Anorexy An"o*rex`yn. [Gr. ?; 'an priv. + ? desire, appetite, ? desire.] (Med.) Want of appetite, without a loathing of food. --Coxe.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Anorexia or anorexia nervosa is an illness in which a person has an overwhelming fear of becoming fat, and so refuses to eat enough and becomes thinner and thinner.