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Meaning of bulimia in English
Pronunciation
/bʊˈlimiə/
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Noun
bulimia
Etymology
late Middle English (as bolisme, later bulimy): modern Latin, or from medieval Latin bolismos, from Greek boulimia‘ravenous hunger’, from bous‘ox’ + limos‘hunger’
Definitions
1.
a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation
2.
pathologically insatiable hunger (especially when caused by brain lesions)