loss of appetite
Food holds no appeal
Loss of appetite is diminished desire to eat, whether from illness, medication, emotional distress, or other causes.
The phrase appears frequently in medical contexts as a symptom: Side effects include nausea and loss of appetite.
Unlike deliberate fasting or dieting, loss of appetite implies the absence is involuntary.
- nauseaPre-vomiting stomach discomfort
- feverElevated body temperature
- bloatingSwollen, expanded state
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- vomitingExpelling stomach contents orally
depression · anorexia · chronic diseases · grief · anxiety · cachexia · skin and bones · stress · cancer · chemo side effects · eating disorders · diarrhea · abdominal pain · fatigue · weight loss · wasting away · infections · withering
- symptomsfever, headache, pain, nausea, rash
- appetitehungry, hunger, starving, famished, ravenous
- hangoversheadache, nausea, thirst, dry mouth, fatigue
- illness symptomsfever, chills, aches, headache, cough
- nauseaqueasiness, queasy feeling, queasy stomach, sick feeling, upset stomach
- kidney symptomshematuria, proteinuria, edema, flank pain, kidney pain
loss of appetiteincreased appetite
Growing urge to eat
ravenous hunger · hunger · appetite · ravenousness · insatiable appetite
loss of appetitezest
Keen enjoyment or peel
enthusiasm · eagerness · passion · gusto