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fastidium

fastidium noun: repugnance toward food; unwillingness to eat.

Noun

fastidium (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) repugnance toward food; unwillingness to eat

Origin of fastidium

From Latin fastīdium (“loathing, disgust”).

Questions about fastidium

What does fastidium mean?
Fastidium means repugnance toward food; unwillingness to eat.
What part of speech is fastidium?
Fastidium is a noun.

Words near fastidium in the dictionary

  1. fastidious
  2. fastidious organism
  3. fastidiously
  4. fastidiousness
  5. fastidity
  6. fastidium
  7. fastigia
  8. fastigial
  9. fastigiate
  10. fastigiated
  11. fastigiately

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