gluttony

Old French glutonie, from gloton + -ie < Latin glutio, equivalent to glutton +‎ -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlʌ.tən.i/

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gluttony (countable and uncountable, plural gluttonies)

1. The vice of eating to excess.
   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     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?

• the English vice

• temperance

• glut
• glutton
• gluttonous
• gluttonry

• alimentiveness