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overeating

overeating

9 2.1
Eating more food than your body needs
  • noun
  • /ˌoʊvərˈiːtɪŋ/
translation icon : comer en exceso
  • Overeating certainly causes diabetes, hypertension, and cardiac disease, but can we control overeating in individual patients?

I feel like it's so easy to fall into like overeating.

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Examples

  • I have endeavored to avoid overeating, oversleeping, and overworking.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • Your hunger and your overeating will fall under the same set of rules if you eat lots of fat and protein and you eat until you're comfortably full.

  • But it would be a mistake to say that overeating is a good thing, right?

    Blog text (24)
  • We have shown that most overeating is emotionally linked in some way.

    Blog text (30)
  • The relationships of these factors and overeating behaviors were explored.

    Academic text (1994)
  • "We know in these situations, overeating is more likely to occur because of hunger."

    Blog text (11)
  • The number four reason you can't stop overeating is because you have come to equate an emotion you feel with hunger.

  • Adding a psychological counseling component to Camp Vision's focus on diet and exercise will help us get to the root of their overeating.

  • In a study of 540 women, van Strien and Bergers (1988) examined the relationship between overeating and gender-role orientation.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Many health professionals agree that overeating can lead to serious health issues like obesity and heart disease.

Synonyms

gluttony
vsovereating
15 7.6

A habit of eating much more food or drink than your body needs

is a neutral act of consuming food too much without moral judgement
overconsumption
vsovereating
3 4.9

Using more food, goods, or natural resources than you need causes harm

is limited to excessive intake of food rather than other resources
overindulgence
vsovereating
2 6.1

Doing too much of something enjoyable, often food or treats, that causes harm

focuses specifically on too much food rather than general pleasure seeking
gula
vsovereating
  • Formal
9.9

Eating too much food that people see as wrong

is the common secular description without religious framing
engorgement
vsovereating
9.1

A feeling of being very full and uncomfortable after eating too much

is the general act of consuming food too much without swelling

How Much

to binge
12 4.5
overeating
9 2.1
fasting
30 3.1

Surface Forms

overeating singular
overeatings plural

Morphology

overeating = overeat (transparent) = over + eat + ing

Clear derivation from the verb 'overeat' with the gerund '-ing' forming a noun meaning the act of excessive eating.

Etymology

Overeating is made of over- meaning 'too much' and eat meaning 'to eat', so the word simply means 'eating too much' — eating more food than your body needs.