inedia

From Latin inedia.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈiːdi.ə/, /ɪnˈiːd͡ʒə/

inedia (uncountable)

1. The (purported) ability to live without food.
   • 1965, Robert D. Smith, Comparative Miracles‎^[1], B.Herder Book Company, page 34:

     The problems of establishing the facts are redoubled when the discussion is narrowed to the type of inedia which in itself is less susceptible to natural explanation and intrinsically more plausible as a sign: active inedia.

   • 1989, Michael P. Carroll, Catholic Cults and Devotions: A Psychological Inquiry‎^[2], McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, page 82:

     Stigmatics are by no means the only mystics to experience inedia; on the contrary, it is a condition that has been experienced by a great many Catholic mystics.

   • 2001 April 19, Anne Jacobson Schutte, Aspiring Saints: Pretense of Holiness, Inquisition, and Gender in the Republic of Venice, 1618-1750‎^[3], JHU Press, →ISBN, page 134:

     Vigorous debates on inedia clearly illustrate the range of difficulties. Unlike visions and locutions, accessible only to those who experience them, inedia can be observed and monitored by others.

• breatharianism

• inediate

• edible

• in idea

• IPA^(key): /iˈnɛ.dja/
• Rhymes: -ɛdja
• Hyphenation: i‧nè‧dia

inedia f (plural inedie)

1. starvation

in- +‎ edō (“to eat”) +‎ -ia

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪˈnɛ.di.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iˈnɛː.d̪i.a]

inedia f (genitive inediae); first declension

1. fasting, starvation

First-declension noun.

• “inedia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inedia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Learned borrowing from Latin inedia.

• IPA^(key): /iˈnɛ.dja/
• Rhymes: -ɛdja
• Syllabification: i‧ne‧dia

inedia f

1. inedia, breatharianism (purported ability to live without food)