cibophobia

English

Etymology

From Latin cibus +‎ -phobia.

Noun

cibophobia (uncountable)

  1. The fear of, or aversion to, eating or food.
    • 1981, M. J. Renaer, Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women, Spring-Verlag, →ISBN, page 134:
      The pain pattern is so intimately related to the ingestion of food that the patient will reduce the size of meals, become reluctant to eat, and even develop frank cibophobia.
    • 1993, Marion Eugene Ensminger, Audrey H. Ensminger, Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia, Two Volume Set, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 423:
      Cibophobia differs from anorexia since appetite may persist but the pearson fears eating because of some associated or subsequent discomfort.
    • 2013 October 28, Max Hill, “Fear Factor”, in The Peak, volume 145, number 9, Simon Fraser University, page 15:
      This condition arises from cheese-related trauma (I'll leave it up to you to imagine what this might entail) and it's often considered a subcategory of cibophobia.

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