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comfort eating

American

[kuhm-fert ee-ting] / ˈkʌm fərt ˌi tɪŋ /

noun

emotional eating, especially as a response to sad, depressing, or upsetting feelings or experiences.

Cake and bread are my go-to for comfort eating when I am down.

Etymology

Origin of comfort eating

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

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Books portraying the feasibility of "Comfortable living on seven hundred a year," or "How to keep house on a restricted income," are both helpful and pernicious.

From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Harland, Marion

Comfortable living was not one of the factors in the Beethoven ménage.

From Beethoven by Fischer, George Alexander

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