food noise
A mental preoccupation with food that is differentiable from hunger and from cravings…A mental preoccupation with food that is differentiable from hunger and from cravings but tends to urge people to overeat.
Meaning
1 senses(idiomatic, uncountable)A mental preoccupation with food that is differentiable from hunger and from cravings but tends to urge people to overeat.
Origin
By a metaphor in which mental preoccupation is portrayed as noise inside one's head that cBy a metaphor in which mental preoccupation is portrayed as noise inside one's head that cannot be turned off, somewhat like an earworm. Widely used since the early 2020s, when indications for using the GLP-1 receptor agonist medication class expanded beyond diabetes treatment into weight control for anyone with or without diabetes; not in widespread use before that. Attested since 2007.
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable