Gluttony

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  • noun. Excess in eating or drinking.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Excess in eating, or in eating and drinking; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity; luxury of the table.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity.
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  • noun. The vice of eating to excess.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. habitual eating to excess
  • noun. eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)
    • Word Usage
    "Naturally, the degree of excess in eating and drinking is to be measured according to age, temperament, condition of life, etc. The term gluttony is relative."
    cross-reference
    desire  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    deadly sin  mortal sin  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    carnality  covetousness  cupidity  debauchery  dishonesty  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abandon  acedia  acquisitiveness  anger  appetite  
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