inedia

/ɪnˈiːdi.ə/

Etymology

From Latin inedia.

inedia means the (purported) ability to live without food. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

inedia is pronounced /ɪnˈiːdi.ə/.

Why “inedia” is a great word

INEDIA — [Noun] The purported ability to live without food. From the Latin inedia (“fasting, abstinence from food”). Unlike fasting, a voluntary and temporary abstention, or anorexia, a pathological refusal to eat, inedia denotes a claimed, miraculous exemption from biological necessity. It is the hollowed cheek of the anchorite hailed as a saint, the breatharian's brittle faith in sunlight, and the quiet fraud of a sealed, empty room—a physical heresy against the warm, fundamental pact of hunger.

noun

The (purported) ability to live without food.“The problems of establishing the facts are redoubled when the discussion is narrowed to the type of inedia which in itself is less susceptible to natural explanation and intrinsically more plausible as a sign: active inedia.”