Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

obesogen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: obe-so-gen
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A chemical or other factor that disturbs the body's normal processes, causing it to tend toward obesity.

Example Sentences

"An 'obesogenic' environment / An environment containing stimuli that encourage obesity can be dubbed an 'obesogenic' environment. Obesity is communicated from parents to children through many potential Obesogens'^([sic]) - from the choices available at breakfast, the transport to school, the contents of the lunchbox, the weekend activities, the rules on eating sweets or the presence of TV sets in the bedroom."

Etymology

* Back-formation from obesogenic.

Inflected Forms

obesogens (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

obesogenic

Questions

What does obesogen mean?: A chemical or other factor that disturbs the body's normal processes, causing it to tend toward obesity.
Where does obesogen come from?: * Back-formation from obesogenic.

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