fletcherism means A dietary system prescribing the repeated chewing of food until all taste is lost, and in abstention from food until very hungry. It carries an Arena rating of 1351, earned across 28 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, fletcherism ranks #268 of 17,151 for The Improbable, #485 of 17,149 for Most Exacting Words, #734 of 17,163 for Funniest Words, #1,540 of 17,104 for Most Storied Words.
Why “fletcherism” is a great word
FLETCHERISM — [Noun] A dietary system advocating the thorough chewing of food until all taste is lost and eating only when extremely hungry. From the surname Fletcher (after Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, American health-food advocate) + the suffix -ism, denoting a system or practice. Unlike poltophagy, which narrowly denotes chewing food into a pulp, or mastication, which refers merely to the physical mechanics, Fletcherism elevates consumption into a prescriptive, quasi-scientific philosophy. It is the monastic labor of reducing a morsel to tasteless liquid, the precise discipline of waiting for a true pang of hunger, and the austere conviction that salvation lies in how you annihilate a food's very character—a creed that perfects the body by making nourishment a solemn, joyless ritual.
Etymology
From Fletcher + -ism, after Horace Fletcher (1849–1919), American health-food enthusiast of the Victorian era.
noun
- A dietary system prescribing the repeated chewing of food until all taste is lost, and in abstention from food until very hungry.
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