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There is no exact name for it. (I take it you mean that they starve and have a fear of being hungry, not a fear of hunger and a fear of starving, which would be two opposite things). However, both are ideals held in eating disorders, the two most common being bulimia and anorexia.

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what is the phobic name for the fear of starving?

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