Gluttony
/ˈɡlʌ.tən.i/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) wordnet
- 3 habitual eating to excess wordnet
Example
More examples"Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins."
Etymology
Old French glutonie, from gloton + -ie < Latin glutio, equivalent to glutton + -y.