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bulimy

bulimy is the archaic form of bulimia.

Meaning of bulimia

Noun

bulimia (countable and uncountable, plural bulimias)

  1. A chronic eating disorder characterized by a binge-and-purge cycle: extreme overeating followed by self-induced vomiting.
    • Grow up, Heather, bulimia is so '87.1989, Daniel Waters, Heathers, spoken by Heather Chandler
    Synonyms:
    bulimia nervosa
  2. (obsolete) Excessive hunger.

Questions about bulimy

What is bulimy the archaic form of?
Bulimy is the archaic form of bulimia.

Words near bulimy in the dictionary

  1. buliminid
  2. buliminids
  3. bulimorexia
  4. bulimulid
  5. bulimulids
  6. bulimy
  7. bulin
  8. bulinid
  9. bulinids
  10. Bulitian
  11. bulk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bulimy (page history and authors); bulimia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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