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bigorexia

bigorexia noun: a mental disorder in which the sufferer perceives themselves to have inadequate musculature; most common among bodybuilders.

Noun

bigorexia (uncountable)

  1. A mental disorder in which the sufferer perceives themselves to have inadequate musculature; most common among bodybuilders.
    • The quest for perfect pecs is so strong that psychiatrists now sometimes refer to it as “bigorexia,” a form of muscle dysmorphia exhibited mostly by men and characterized by excessive weight lifting, a preoccupation with not feeling muscular enough and a strict adherence to eating foods that lower...2022 March 5, Alex Hawgood, “What Is ‘Bigorexia’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2022

Synonyms of bigorexia

Origin of bigorexia

Blend of big + anorexia.

Words formed from bigorexia

Questions about bigorexia

What does bigorexia mean?
Bigorexia means a mental disorder in which the sufferer perceives themselves to have inadequate musculature; most common among bodybuilders.
What part of speech is bigorexia?
Bigorexia is a noun.

Words near bigorexia in the dictionary

  1. bigonial
  2. bigons
  3. Bigonville
  4. bigophone
  5. bigophones
  6. bigorexia
  7. bigorexic
  8. bigorexics
  9. bigorra
  10. bigorrah
  11. bigos

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