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Pregnant vs Pregorexia - What's the difference?

pregnant | pregorexia |

As nouns the difference between pregnant and pregorexia

is that pregnant is a pregnant woman while pregorexia is a condition where a pregnant mother is obsessed with being thin.

As an adjective pregnant

is carrying developing offspring within the body.

pregnant

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic) * pregnaunt (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
    • I went to the doctor and, guess what, I'm pregnant !
  • (comparable) Having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
    • a pregnant pause
  • * Shakespeare
    • wherein the pregnant enemy does much
  • Fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground etc.).
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vi:
    • The sunne-beames bright vpon her body playd, / Being through former bathing mollifide, / And pierst into her wombe, where they embayd / With so sweet sence and secret power vnspide, / That in her pregnant flesh they shortly fructifide.
  • (obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Pregnant to good pity.

    Synonyms

    * expecting, expecting a baby, expectant, gravid (of animals only ), with child, fertilized * eating for two, having a bun in the oven, in a family way, knocked up, preggers, up the duff * in an interesting condition, in a family way * (having many possibilities or implications) meaningful, significant * See also

    Hyponyms

    * (carrying developing offspring) in trouble

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pregnant woman.
    • (Dunglison)
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    pregorexia

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A condition where a pregnant mother is obsessed with being thin.
  • * 2008', Jane Bainbridge, "'''Pregorexia : body image over baby?" (article), in ''British Journal of Midwifery , Volume 16, Issue 9, September 4 2008, page 608.
  • *2009 , Kevin Courtney, "Pregorexia", The Irish Times , 7 July 2009:
    • Pregorexia came on the radar in 2006 when former TV presenter Liz Fraser told Marie Claire magazine about her struggle with bulimia during pregnancy.
  • *2012 , Alison Smith-Squire, " The 'pregorexic' mother whose weight plummeted to FOUR STONE because she was so worried about getting fat during pregnancy", Daily Mail , 2 March 2012:
    • Her dramatic weight loss meant Mrs Bassett had to be taken into hospital when just 11 weeks pregnant. Evan was born early at 30 weeks, but her ‘pregorexia ’ left her too frail to care for him until he was 14 months old.
  • *2013 , Emily Hourican, How to (Really) Be a Mother , Gill & Macmillan (2013), ISBN 9780717158461, unnumbered page:
    • Pregorexia , or 'mommyrexia', as they dub it Stateside, is a growing disorder: women exercising madly all through the pregnancy (there are now scores of websites devoted to selling workout gear for pregnant women, while sizes for maternity clothes these days often include an extra-small, which would be impossibly tiny even for the average non-pregnant woman),

    References

    * New York Times: Buzz Words 2008