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phagomania (s) (noun) (no plural)
1. An insatiable hunger or craving for food, or an obsessive preoccupation with the subject of eating: George has a passion or a phagomania for eating large quantities of various kinds of food.
2. Etymology: from Greek phago, "to eat" + -mania, "compulsion, obsession; madness."
An uncontrollable compulsion to eat.
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This entry is located in the following units: mania-, -mania, -maniac, -maniacal, -manic, -manically, -maniacally (page 20) phago-, phag-, -phage, -phagi, -phagic, -phagically, -phagia, -phagism, -phagist, -phagic, -phagous, -phagy (page 14)