Gluttony

//ˈɡlʌ.tən.i// noun

noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The vice of eating to excess. countable, uncountable

    "The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?"

  2. 2
    eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) wordnet
  3. 3
    habitual eating to excess wordnet

Synonyms

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abandonacediaacquisitivenessangerappetiteavarice

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"Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins."

Etymology

Old French glutonie, from gloton + -ie < Latin glutio, equivalent to glutton + -y.

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