"skin hunger" is a correct and usable phrase in written English, though it may not be a commonly used or widely recognized phrase.
It refers to a strong desire or need for physical touch, often in a romantic or intimate sense. Example: "After weeks of quarantine, I felt a deep sense of skin hunger and longed for the warmth and comfort of physical connection with someone."
Also nominated are "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," which Sherman Alexie based on his own boyhood experiences; Kathleen Duey's first part of a trilogy, "Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One"; and "The Invention of Hugo Cabret," about an orphan and thief who lives in a Paris train station, by Brian Selznick, who has won a Caldecott Honor for his work as an illustrator.
Ever hear of the term "skin hunger"?
"We, as a society, are suffering from skin hunger - most of us are functioning on a deficit of tenderness and affection.
One of the worst parts of being adrift for so long was the physical discomfort, the salt-water sores on my skin, the hunger and constant thirst.
You remember the simile later on, as characters notice the different hues that skin takes as hunger and cold grip a human body.
On the other hand, nitroso dyes consist of o-nitrosophenols or naphthols used on dyeing animal skins and silk (Hunger 2003).
I'd read news of children affected by hunger, diarrhea, skin and other diseases.
When you eliminate these addictive, toxic foods and drinks, you may initially have uncomfortable reactions like feeling achy, flu-like feelings, irritability, nausea, headaches, brain fog, constipation, hunger, itchy skin, fatigue and sleep difficulties.
"I was riding out of my skin because I felt the hunger.
Mohamed, expected to arrive in the UK on Monday and described recently by his US lawyer as "all skin and bones", ended his hunger strike last week as British officials visited him at the US camp in Cuba.
Brahmist farmers were forced to grow sugarcane and indigo even as their bellies rang hollow and the skin stretched on bare bones from hunger.
