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noun
A chronic eating disorder characterized by a binge-and-purge cycle: extreme overeating followed by self-induced vomiting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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Synonyms: bulimia nervosa
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Excessive hunger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hunger
noun
pathologically insatiable hunger (especially when caused by brain lesions)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hunger, hungriness
noun
a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: binge-eating syndrome
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: eating disorder
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gwṓws Proto-Hellenic *gwous Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs) Ancient Greek λῑμός (līmós) Ancient Greek βούλῑμος (boúlīmos) Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh2 Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek βουλῑμῐ́ᾱ (boulīmĭ́ā)lbor. English bulimia Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βουλῑμῐ́ᾱ (boulīmĭ́ā, “ravenous hunger”), from βούλῑμος (boúlīmos) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).
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