vigorexia
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Galician
[edit]Noun
[edit]vigorexia f (plural vigorexias)
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -iɐ
- Hyphenation: vi‧go‧re‧xi‧a
Noun
[edit]vigorexia f (plural vigorexias)
- bigorexia (excessive concern about the idea of having a small and/or poorly muscled physical structure, which can manifest itself in a distorted perception of body image and in certain behaviors such as excessive physical exercise, ingestion of anabolic steroids and diets rich in proteins)
- 2015 September 22, “Vigorexia, o distúrbio ‘das academias’ que leva ao desejo de ter corpo cada vez maior”, in BBC[1]:
- Vigorexia, o distúrbio ‘das academias’ que leva ao desejo de ter corpo cada vez maior
- Bigorexia, the ‘gym’ disorder that leads to the desire to have an increasingly larger body
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Further reading
[edit]- “vigorexia”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “vigorexia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vigorexia f (plural vigorexias)
- bigorexia
- 2015 July 11, “‘The Jesus & Mary Chain’, a la altura de sus recuerdos”, in El País[2]:
- A pesar de que en un festival se supone la obligación de cierta vigorexia emocional, creo que gustó más cuando presentó su lado reposado, en Running o Let it go.
- Despite the fact that a certain emotional bigorexia is supposed to be required at a festival, I think he liked it better when he presented his relaxed side, in Running or Let it go.
Further reading
[edit]- “vigorexia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
- “vigorexia” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/iɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/iɐ/5 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
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- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese terms with quotations
- Spanish terms derived from English
- Spanish 4-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/eɡsja
- Rhymes:Spanish/eɡsja/4 syllables
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