Difference between Pica and Geophagia

What is the difference between Pica and Geophagia?

Pica as a noun is a vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia. while Geophagia as a noun is consumption of clay, chalk or dirt.

Pica

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia. A size of type. A unit of measure equivalent to 12 points. # The traditional British and American pica, about 4.22 mm, or 0.166 in (close to 1/6 of an inch). # The PostScript pica, 1/6 of an inch.

Geophagia

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Consumption of clay, chalk or dirt.

We hope you now know whether to use Pica or Geophagia in your sentence.

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