GLUTTONY
| Pronunciation: | | 'glutnee
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| Matching Terms: | | glutton, gluttonise, Gluttonish, gluttonize, gluttonous, gluttonously
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- [n] eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- [n] habitual eating to excess
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| | Synonyms: | | gula, overeating |
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| | See Also: | | deadly sin, edacity, esurience, greediness, hoggishness, intemperance, mortal sin, piggishness, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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