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say it: byoo-LIM-ee-uh
bulimia is a noun meaning "a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation". It is pronounced /bjuˈlɪmiə/ — byoo-LIM-ee-uh. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation
pathologically insatiable hunger (especially when caused by brain lesions)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bulimia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.