eating disorder

American  

noun

• eating disorders
  plural

1. any of various disorders, as anorexia nervosa or bulimia, characterized by severe disturbances in eating habits.

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eating disorder Scientific  

/ ē′tĭng /

1. Any of several patterns of severely disturbed eating behavior, especially anorexia nervosa and bulimia, seen mainly in female teenagers and young women.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• eating disorders
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of eating disorder

First recorded in 1990–95

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

eating disorder

Jordan, who has lived with an eating disorder since he was 12, said the photoshoot was the culmination of a dream he had held onto since a relapse in his teens.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

I had an eating disorder, which is still kind of … You know, last night, I asked for apple juice during the show — I was in trouble because I wasn’t eating.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Few people then, not even Carpenter’s closest confidantes, knew how to talk about what was actually an eating disorder, much less manage it.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026

This January, she stopped the injections and began going to eating disorder treatment several times a week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Zander is sometimes depressed, too, and Annabelle herself is anxious, and Sierra is edging toward an eating disorder, and those are only the things she knows for sure.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

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