gluttony
/ˈɡlʌt(ə)ni
/noun [mass noun]
Habitual greed or excess in eating: she said plumpness was a sign of gluttony in most cases...
- Truly, we can not free ourselves of our compulsion to do what is wrong, especially when inherently selfish motives are involved, like greed, gluttony, and lust.
- No animal should suffer or die for human arrogance, greed, vanity or gluttony.
- The proper response to the globalization of greed and gluttony, and to the rise of violence in this world, is solidarity, which must manifest itself in practical actions, not just rhetorical flourishes.
Synonyms
greed, greediness, overeating, overconsumption, binge eating, gourmandism, gourmandizing, gluttonousness, voraciousness, voracity, wolfishness, insatiability
informal piggishness, hoggishness, gutsiness
technical polyphagia, hyperphagia
rare edaciousness, edacity, gulosity, esurience
Origin
Middle English: from Old French glutonie, from gluton 'glutton'.
Rhymes
- ligroin
- ligula
- ligular
- ligulate
- ligule
- Liguria
- Ligurian
- Ligurian Sea
- ligustrum
- likable
- like
- -like
- like a bat out of hell
- like a bear with a sore head
- likeability
- likeable
- likeableness
- like a blue-arsed fly
- likeably
- like a bride's nightie
- like a bull at a gate
- like a bull in a china shop
- like a cat on a hot tin roof (also on hot bricks)
- like a deer (or rabbit) in the headlights
- like a demon