basorexia
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin bāsium (“kiss”) + ὄρεξις (órexis, “appetite”).[1] The term is not recorded in other major dictionaries and is likely a neologism.
Noun
[edit]basorexia (uncountable)
- (neologism, rare) An overwhelming urge to be kissed.
- 2015, Greenwillow Books, Made You Up, New York, N.Y.: Greenwillow Books, →ISBN, page 273:
- Miles's fingers pressed into the small of my back. "Basorexia," he mumbled.
- 2016, Lindsey Rosin, Cherry, London: Hot Key Books, →ISBN, page 182:
- Savannah turned her attention back to Emma, pressing her forehead against the seat only a few inches from Emma's forehead, just like Oliver was doing to Caroline. "Looks like they're having a bad case of basorexia."
- 2017, Lydia Ruffles, The Taste of Blue Light, London: Hodder Children's Books, →ISBN, page 156:
- 'You don't know everything, Lux,' he says. 'Anyway, right now I've got a serious case of basorexia that I'm hoping you can assist me with.'
- 2017, How Your Brain Works: Inside the Most Complicated Object in the Universe, London: John Murray Learning, →ISBN, page 85:
- Just beware of basorexia — the sudden urge to kiss someone.