appetite loss
Food interest waning
Appetite loss is a reduced desire to eat, whether from illness, medication, stress, or emotional disturbance.
The term appears frequently in medical contexts as a symptom to monitor: Common side effects include nausea and appetite loss.
Unlike deliberate fasting or dieting, appetite loss implies the absence of hunger itself rather than resistance to it.
- anorexiaEating disorder, self-starvation
- nauseaPre-vomiting stomach discomfort
- empty stomachDigestive tract without food
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- wastingUsing poorly, inefficiently
wasting away · thin · gaunt · skin and bones · hollow · empty · queasy · sickness · malnutrition · fatigue · depression · grief · chemotherapy · side effect · stomach · weakness · listless · refusing
- Hunger & Appetitehunger, fullness, satiety, craving, hunger pangs
- pet healthvet visit, checkup, checkups, vaccinations, rabies vaccination
- symptomsfever, headache, pain, nausea, rash
- appetitehungry, hunger, starving, famished, ravenous
- body symptomsheadache, headaches, dizziness, nausea, fatigue
- side effectsnausea, headache, dizziness, drowsiness, rash
appetite lossravenous hunger
Extreme, urgent need to eat
insatiable appetite · increased appetite · hunger · appetite increase · overeating
appetite lossburning desire
Intense emotional craving
enthusiasm · eagerness · zeal · lust · passion