gluttony
noun/ˈɡlʌ.tən.i/
Etymology From Old French glutonie, from gloton + -ie, from Latin glutio, equivalent to glutton + -y.
1
The vice of eating to excess.
- 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?1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
- Antonyms
- temperance
- Related terms
- glut, glutton, gluttonous, gluttonry, alimentiveness