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emotional eating

emotional eating noun: the propensity to eat in response to positive or negative emotions.

Noun

emotional eating (uncountable)

  1. The propensity to eat in response to positive or negative emotions.

Questions about emotional eating

What does emotional eating mean?
Emotional eating means the propensity to eat in response to positive or negative emotions.
What part of speech is emotional eating?
Emotional eating is a noun.

Words near emotional eating in the dictionary

  1. emotional ages
  2. emotional blackmail
  3. emotional competence
  4. emotional cripple
  5. emotional cripples
  6. emotional eating
  7. emotional hardcore
  8. emotional incontinence
  9. emotional incontinences
  10. emotional intelligence
  11. emotional intelligences

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