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Anorexia vs Anorexically - What's the difference?

anorexia | anorexically |

As a noun anorexia

is loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease.

As an adverb anorexically is

pertaining to loss of appetite or anorexia.

anorexia

English

Noun

  • Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease.
  • Anorexia nervosa.
  • Derived terms

    * ana * anorexiant * anorexic * anorexigenic * bigorexia * manorexia * preanorexic * pro-ana

    anorexically

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Pertaining to loss of appetite or anorexia.
  • *2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 434:
  • *:The stars of the Right, which attracted a large following from the provincial nobility, were intransigents such as [...] Mirabeau's younger brother, the anorexically challenged Mirabeau-‘Tonneau’ (‘Mirabeau the Barrel’).
  • Synonyms

    * anorectically