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anopsology

anopsology noun: a raw food diet based on the sensory pleasure instinct.

Noun

anopsology (uncountable)

  1. A raw food diet based on the sensory pleasure instinct.
    • Anopsology is not medicine since it makes no use of diagnoses, chemical products or technical expedients.1987, Severen L. Schaeffer, Instinctive Nutrition, →ISBN, page 120
    • Guy-Claude Burger has some fascinating theories connected with anopsology. Among them, bacteria and viruses are used by the body, much like Tilden wrote. […] Anopsology is "instinctive eating". People who are into this sort of thing are "instinctos". Of course there is no such thing as instinct.2001 September 25, @unknownsite, “Re: germs as cause of disease”, in humanities.philosophy.objectivism (Usenet)

Origin of anopsology

From an- (“not, without”) + Ancient Greek ὄψον (ópson, “delicacies”) + -ology, from Ancient Greek ἄνοψος (ánopsos, “without relish”).

Words formed from anopsology

Questions about anopsology

What does anopsology mean?
Anopsology means a raw food diet based on the sensory pleasure instinct.
What part of speech is anopsology?
Anopsology is a noun.

Words near anopsology in the dictionary

  1. anopore
  2. anopsia
  3. anopsias
  4. anopsologist
  5. anopsologists
  6. anopsology
  7. anopsy
  8. anopubic
  9. Anor
  10. anorak
  11. anoraked

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