cibophobia

English

Etymology

From Latin cibus +‎ -phobia.

Noun

cibophobia (uncountable)

1. The fear of, or aversion to, eating or food.
   • 1981, M. J. Renaer, Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women, Spring-Verlag, →ISBN, page 134:

     The pain pattern is so intimately related to the ingestion of food that the patient will reduce the size of meals, become reluctant to eat, and even develop frank cibophobia.

   • 1993, Marion Eugene Ensminger, Audrey H. Ensminger, Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia, Two Volume Set, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 423:

     Cibophobia differs from anorexia since appetite may persist but the pearson fears eating because of some associated or subsequent discomfort.

   • 2013 October 28, Max Hill, “Fear Factor”, in The Peak, volume 145, number 9, Simon Fraser University, page 15:

     This condition arises from cheese-related trauma (I'll leave it up to you to imagine what this might entail) and it's often considered a subcategory of cibophobia.

See also

• sitophobia, anorexia nervosa