emotional eating

[ ih-moh-shuh-nl ee-ting ]

/ ɪˈmoʊ ʃə nl ˈi tɪŋ /

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noun

eating, often excessively, as a response to stress, boredom, unhappiness, or other emotional condition, rather than as a response to physical hunger: Prolonged loneliness can lead to a number of unhealthy habits, including emotional eating.

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Origin of emotional eating

First recorded in 1975–80

Words nearby emotional eating

emotion, emotional, emotional correctness, emotional deprivation, emotional disorder, emotional eating, emotional illness, emotional intelligence, emotionalism, emotionalist, emotionality

How to use emotional eating in a sentence

To stop emotional eating, do a gut-check before you reach for a snack.
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Deep, situational, and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a POINT!
Trolls and Martyrdom: Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie|Arthur Chu|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
What celebrity has started to talk about his or her eating disorder?
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Eating disorders, researchers believed, were essentially more severe forms of disordered eating.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

Genetics alone does not an eating disorder make, generally speaking, and Bulik points out that environment still plays a role.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Binge eating and purging does the same for someone with bulimia.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Then a nervous, anxious feeling that takes away my appetite, and prevents me from eating my dinner.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
It was, of course, the suppressed emotional energy finding another outlet.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
He could easily tell where the acorns had been hidden, and, a moment later, he had rooted them up and was eating them.
Squinty the Comical Pig|Richard Barnum
Although everybody laughed at such a notion, the Worm-eating Warbler declared that he had a right to his own belief.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
She wondered if there were a kind of dreadful dog which made a specialty of eating fathers.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson