BULIMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bulimia mean? 

• BULIMIA (noun)
  The noun BULIMIA has 2 senses:

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)

  Familiarity information: BULIMIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BULIMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

binge-eating syndrome; bulimia

Hypernyms ("bulimia" is a kind of...):

eating disorder (a disorder of the normal eating routine)

Derivation:

bulimic (suffering from bulimia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pathologically insatiable hunger (especially when caused by brain lesions)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("bulimia" is a kind of...):

hunger; hungriness (a physiological need for food; the consequence of food deprivation)

Derivation:

bulimic (suffering from bulimia)

 Context examples 

A disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of binge-eating over which the individual feels a lack of control and a sense of disgust and shame; unlike bulimia, however, there is no attempt to compensate for the binge-eating through vomiting or fasting.

(Binge Eating Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)