Anorexia vs Underweight - What's the difference?
anorexia | underweight |
Loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease.
Anorexia nervosa.
Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
:He's so underweight he's had to buy smaller clothes.
:He's thirty pounds underweight .
Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
:The suitcase is just slightly underweight ; I'll let it on the plane.
(finance) Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.
:The fund is underweight in mining.
* 2011 , Murdoch, S.
*:"It's a long-run trend of foreign investors -- typically being underweight the banking sector in Australia," Mr Baker said.
The state or quality of being .
* 1996 , United States Nutrition Risk Criteria, WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria: A Scientific Assessment , National Academies Press, ISBN 978-0-309-05385-3, page 110,
To underestimate the weight of.
To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.
As nouns the difference between anorexia and underweight
is that anorexia is loss of appetite, especially as a result of disease while underweight is the state or quality of being.As an adjective underweight is
of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.As a verb underweight is
to underestimate the weight of.anorexia
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Noun
Derived terms
* ana * anorexiant * anorexic * anorexigenic * bigorexia * manorexia * preanorexic * pro-anaExternal links
* (wikipedia "anorexia") ----underweight
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Adjective
(en adjective)Foreigners back for Aussie stocks, The Australian
Antonyms
* (of low weight) overweight * (not too heavy) overweightNoun
(-)- Underweight' reflects the body’s thinness, but the term does not necessarily imply the nature and causes of ' underweight .