Definition of tanorexia in English:
tanorexia
nounˌtanəˈrɛksɪəˌtænəˈrɛksiə
mass nouninformal An obsessive desire to acquire and maintain a suntan, by natural or artificial methods.
she is one of a growing number of teenagers thought to be suffering from tanorexia
Example sentencesExamples
- These days there is even a term for tan addiction - tanorexia - because of the amount of young people putting themselves at risk.
- Assuming that you don't have tanorexiaa compulsion marked by frequent trips to the tanning boothyou have every reason to feel optimistic about your skin.
- But was I secretly suffering from an acute case of tanorexia, only just managing to keep my inner torment under control with the help of factor 2 carrot oil?
- People with tanorexia have tanned skin but look into the mirror and see themselves as too pale.
- And for the first time I began to miss my old life, my old self-obsessed, narcissistic, no room-for-anyone-else-but-me kind of life filled with my own depressing issues of self-hate, loneliness and tanorexia.
- Tony, who is now 15, is one of a growing number of teenagers thought to be suffering from tanorexia.
Origin
1980s: blend of tan1 (sense 2 of the noun) and anorexia.
Definition of tanorexia in US English:
tanorexia
nounˌtænəˈrɛksiəˌtanəˈreksēə
informal An obsessive desire to acquire and maintain a suntan, by natural or artificial methods.
Example sentencesExamples
- But was I secretly suffering from an acute case of tanorexia, only just managing to keep my inner torment under control with the help of factor 2 carrot oil?
- These days there is even a term for tan addiction - tanorexia - because of the amount of young people putting themselves at risk.
- And for the first time I began to miss my old life, my old self-obsessed, narcissistic, no room-for-anyone-else-but-me kind of life filled with my own depressing issues of self-hate, loneliness and tanorexia.
- Tony, who is now 15, is one of a growing number of teenagers thought to be suffering from tanorexia.
- Assuming that you don't have tanorexiaa compulsion marked by frequent trips to the tanning boothyou have every reason to feel optimistic about your skin.
- People with tanorexia have tanned skin but look into the mirror and see themselves as too pale.
Origin
1980s: blend of tan (sense 2 of the noun) and anorexia.