What does "bulimia" mean?

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

Bulimia

Common synonyms include: binge eating with purging, binge purge disorder, binge purge syndrome, binge-eating syndrome, bulimia nervosa.

/bjuˈlimi.ə/ noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Noun

1
A chronic eating disorder characterized by a binge-and-purge cycle: extreme overeating followed by self-induced vomiting. countable, uncountable
"Grow up, Heather, bulimia is so '87."
2
pathologically insatiable hunger (especially when caused by brain lesions) wordnet
3
Excessive hunger. countable, obsolete, uncountable
4
a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation wordnet

"Tom was diagnosed with bulimia."

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