English Explanatory Dictionary

food noise

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A mental preoccupation with food that is differentiable from hunger and from cravings but tends to urge people to overeat.

Word forms

food noise

Etymology

By 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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