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Gluttony

Gluttony Meaning & Definition
Gluttony Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Gluttony?

[n] eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)
[n] habitual eating to excess

Synonyms | Synonyms for Gluttony: gula | overeating

Related Terms | Find terms related to Gluttony: abandon | acedia | acquisitiveness | anger | appetite | avarice | avariciousness | avaritia | avidity | avidness | boundlessness | cannibalism | carnivorism | carnivority | carnivorousness | chewing | consumption | covetousness | crapulence | crapulency | crapulousness | cropping | cupidity | deadly sin | deglutition | devouring | devourment | dieting | dining | drunkenness | eating | edacity | egregiousness | enormousness | envy | epulation | exaggeration | excess | excessiveness | exorbitance | exorbitancy | extravagance | extravagancy | extreme | extremes | extremism | extremity | fabulousness | feasting | feeding | frenzy of desire | fury of desire | giantism | gigantism | gobbling | grasping | graspingness | grazing | greed | greediness | gula | gulosity | herbivorism | herbivority | herbivorousness | hoggishness | hunger | hyperbole | hypertrophy | immoderacy | immoderateness | immoderation | incontinence | indiscipline | indulgence | ingestion | inordinacy | inordinance | inordinate desire | inordinateness | insatiability | insatiable desire | intemperance | intemperateness | invidia | ira | itching palm | licking | lust | luxuria | manducation | mastication | messing | monstrousness | munching | nibbling | nimiety | nutrition | omnivorism | omnivorousness | omophagy | outrageousness | overdevelopment | overdoing | overeating | overgreatness | overgreediness | overgrowth | overindulgence | overlargeness | overmuch | overmuchness | pantophagy | pasture | pasturing | pecking | piggishness | pride | prodigality | radicalism | rapaciousness | rapacity | ravenousness | regalement | relishing | rumination | savoring | self-indulgence | sloth | sordidness | superbia | swinishness | tasting | too much | too-muchness | unconscionableness | unconstraint | uncontrol | undueness | unreasonableness | unrestrainedness | unrestraint | vegetarianism | voraciousness | voracity | wolfing | wolfishness | wrath

See Also | deadly sin | edacity | esurience | greediness | hoggishness | intemperance | mortal sin | piggishness | rapaciousness | rapacity | voraciousness | voracity

Gluttony In Webster's Dictionary

\Glut"ton*y\, n.; pl. {Gluttonies}. [OE. glotonie, OF. glotonie, gloutonnie.] Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. --Milton.

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