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polyphagia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
polypha-gia
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An excessive appetite for food

Uncountable

noun

The eating of many different types of food.

Uncountable

Etymology

From poly- + -phagia, from Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s, “many”) and ἔφᾰγον (éphăgon, “eat”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

polyphagias (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

polyphagic

Synonyms

hyperphagia polyphagy

Questions

What does polyphagia mean?
An excessive appetite for food
Where does polyphagia come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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