indigestion

From Middle English indigestioun, from Old French indigestion, from Late Latin indigestio, by surface analysis, in- +‎ digestion.

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indigestion (usually uncountable, plural indigestions)

1. (Pathology) A condition of heartburn, nausea, or other stomach-related pain, sometimes caused by eating too quickly.
   • 1917 February 12, “If You Knew What Foods?” (advertisement), in The Independent, volume 59, number 3558, New York: Independent Corporation, page 280:

     If you also knew how to combine foods—that is, what foods eaten together “set well,” you need never have indigestion, constipation or any of the headachy, stomachachy ills they lead to.

• acid indigestion

• acid reflux
• gastric reflux
• GERD
• GORD
• heartburn
• constipation
• bubble guts

• indigotines

Learned borrowing from Late Latin indigestiō.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.di.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃/

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indigestion f (plural indigestions)

1. indigestion
2. (figuratively) overdose of, surfeit of something

• digestion
• indigeste

• intoxication alimentaire

• “indigestion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.