bulimia

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A chronic eating disorder characterized by a binge-and-purge cycle: extreme overeating followed by self-induced vomiting.

   Grow up, Heather, bulimia is so '87.

2. 2
   noun

   pathologically insatiable hunger (especially when caused by brain lesions)

3. 3
   noun

   a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation

4. 4
   noun

   Excessive hunger.

Etymology

PIE word *gʷṓws From Ancient Greek βουλιμία (boulimía, “ravenous hunger”), from βοῦς (boûs, “cow, ox”) + λῑμός (līmós, “hunger”).