Meanings
- uncountableThe state of being hangry; hanger.
In addition, stress or intense emotions can actually lead to more ghrelin production and hunger. Stress-eating is a cousin of hangriness.
2022, Micaela Fox Corn, “Tween Science Hangry?”, in Pitt Med2 more examples
But how hunger turns into hangriness is a mystery, says Jennifer MacCormack, a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in psychology and neuroscience, who wanted to understand the phenomenon.
2018 November 6, Angus Chen, “How Hunger Pangs Can Make Nice People 'Hangry'”, in NPRA 2019 study suggests that the intensity of your “hangriness” is influenced by the interplay of interoception—the awareness of our body’s internal signals—and environmental context.
2024 March 1, Mark Travers, “A Psychologist Explains The Science Of The ‘Hangry’ Phenomenon”, in Forbes
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Korean 배고픔
- 배고픔 (baegopeum)Translations
Spanish enojambre
- enojambreTranslations
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Cite this entry
hangriness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hangriness
“hangriness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hangriness. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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