Breatharian

//bɹɛˈθɛə.ɹi.ən// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who lives without food, subsisting instead on prana or sunlight.

    "Those who suspect a growing homogeneity in the once-eccentric East Village may find comfort in Dr. David Jubb, a New Age health guru who runs Jubb's Longevity on East 12th Street and claims to be a breatharian, taking light and air as his primary nourishment."

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"Those who suspect a growing homogeneity in the once-eccentric East Village may find comfort in Dr. David Jubb, a New Age health guru who runs Jubb's Longevity on East 12th Street and claims to be a breatharian, taking light and air as his primary nourishment."

Etymology

From breath + -arian.

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