GLUTTONY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gluttony mean? 

• GLUTTONY (noun)
  The noun GLUTTONY has 2 senses:

1. habitual eating to excess

2. eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)

  Familiarity information: GLUTTONY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLUTTONY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Habitual eating to excess

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("gluttony" is a kind of...):

intemperance (the quality of being intemperate)

Attribute:

gluttonous (given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gluttony"):

greediness; hoggishness; piggishness (an excessive desire for food)

edacity; esurience; rapaciousness; rapacity; voraciousness; voracity (extreme gluttony)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

gluttony; gula; overeating

Hypernyms ("gluttony" is a kind of...):

deadly sin; mortal sin (an unpardonable sin entailing a total loss of grace)

 Context examples 

Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomised life as a voracious appetite and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless.

(White Fang, by Jack London)