Usually means: Excessive, abnormal appetite; pathological hunger.
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  1. Limosis: Merriam-Webster
  2. limosis: Collins English Dictionary
  3. limosis: Wordnik
  4. limosis: Wiktionary
  5. Limosis, limosis: Dictionary.com
  6. Limosis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. limosis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Limosis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. limosis: FreeDictionary.org
  10. limosis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. Limosis: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Limosis: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (limosis)

▸ noun:  (medicine, obsolete) A ravenous appetite caused by disease; morbid excessive hunger.

Similar:
malacia, lycorexia, dysorexia, morbid obesity, cynorexia, lonomism, acoria, loxoscelism, colliquation, clinomania, more...

Opposite:
plethora, abundance, excess

Types:
anorexia, bulimia, more...

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Similar:
malacia, lycorexia, dysorexia, morbid obesity, cynorexia, lonomism, acoria, loxoscelism, colliquation, clinomania, more...

Opposite:
plethora, abundance, excess

Types:
anorexia, bulimia, more...



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