Synonyms for bulimia
noun poor nutritioneating disorder
noun. unhealthy disturbance in eating behavior
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Word Origin & History
1976, Modern Latin, from Greek boulimia, "ravenous hunger" as a disease, literally "ox-hunger," from bou-, intensive prefix (originally from bous "ox;" see cow (n.)) + limos "hunger," from PIE root *leie- "to waste away." As a psychological disorder, technically bulemia nervosa. Englished bulimy was used from late 14c. in a medical sense of "ravishing hunger."
Example Sentences forbulimia
Hence they marched through snow the whole of the following day, and many of the men contracted the bulimia.
It is a species of bulimia—an insatiable appetite, which "grows by what it feeds on."
From hence they marched through snow the whole of the following day, and many of the men contracted the bulimia.