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8 letters · 22 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease
originFrom Late Latin cachexia or French cachexie, from Ancient Greek καχεξία (kakhexía), from κακός (kakós, “bad; injurious”) + ἕξῐς (héxĭs, “act of having; habit or state of body”) (ultimately from ἔχω (ékhō, “to have”)) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă, suffix added to adjectives to form abstract nouns).
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