anopsology

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-, “not”) + ὄψον (ópson, “that which is cooked”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study”).

Noun

anopsology (uncountable)

1. A raw food diet based on the sensory pleasure instinct.
   • 1987, Severen L. Schaeffer, Instinctive Nutrition, →ISBN, page 120:

     Anopsology is not medicine since it makes no use of diagnoses, chemical products or technical expedients.

   • 2001 September 25, @unknownsite, “Re: germs as cause of disease”, in humanities.philosophy.objectivism‎^[1] (Usenet):

     Guy-Claude Burger has some fascinating theories connected with anopsology. Among them, bacteria and viruses are used by the body, much like Tilden wrote. […] Anopsology is "instinctive eating". People who are into this sort of thing are "instinctos". Of course there is no such thing as instinct.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:anopsology.

Derived terms

• anopsologist