Noun: basorexia
Sample Sentences
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Miles's fingers pressed into the small of my back. "Basorexia," he mumbled. [2015, Greenwillow Books, Made You Up, New York, N.Y.: Greenwillow Books, →ISBN, page 273:]
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Savannah turned her attention back to Emma, pressing her forehead against the seat only a few inches from Emma's forehead, just like Oliver was doing to Caroline. "Looks like they're having a bad case of basorexia." [2016, Lindsey Rosin, Cherry, London: Hot Key Books, →ISBN, page 182:]
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'You don't know everything, Lux,' he says. 'Anyway, right now I've got a serious case of basorexia that I'm hoping you can assist me with.' [2017, Lydia Ruffles, The Taste of Blue Light, London: Hodder Children's Books, →ISBN, page 156:]
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Just beware of basorexia — the sudden urge to kiss someone. [2017, How Your Brain Works: Inside the Most Complicated Object in the Universe, London: John Murray Learning, →ISBN, page 85:]
Nouns inflected like basorexia
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin bāsium (“kiss”) + -orexia. The term is not recorded in other major dictionaries and is likely a neologism. By surface analysis, bas- + -orexia. See: Latin Nouns '
bāsium'.