bulimia Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation
    binge-eating syndrome.
  2. noun pathologically insatiable hunger (especially when caused by brain lesions)

WordNet

Bu*lim"i*a, Bu"li*my noun (Also<
  • Bulimia
  • Bulimy
)
Etymology
NL. bulimia, fr. Gr. , lit., ox-hunger; ox + hunger: cf. F. boulimie.
Definitions
  1. (Med.) A disease in which there is a perpetual and insatiable appetite for food; a diseased and voracious appetite.

Webster 1913