Definitions
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- noun A
focus on cutting down one'senergy consumption and reducing one'scarbon footprint that is deemedirrational ,excessive , orunhealthy .
Etymologies
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Blend of carbon and anorexia.
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Examples
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Even if few people suffer from energy anorexia, or carborexia, as it's also called, a recent survey showed that fully 7 percent of Americans are hard core about recycling and reducing their carbon output.
IEEE Spectrum 2010
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Last weekend my family and I appeared in the New York Times as victims (or perhaps purveyors) of a new mental illness, "carborexia."
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Perhaps you suffer from carborexia: read Government Spoils Resolution on Whaling
Jennifer Marohasy 2008
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Last weekend my family and I appeared in the New York Times as victims (or perhaps purveyors) of a new mental illness, "carborexia."
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