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gluttony

noun

  1. over-indulgence and over-consumption, such as of food
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈɡlʌ.tən.i/

noun

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?