gluttony means the vice of eating to excess. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 78 out of 100.
gluttony is pronounced /ˈɡlʌ.tən.i/.
Why “gluttony” is a great word
GLUTTONY — [Noun] The habitual and excessive indulgence in food and drink. From Old French glutonie, from gloton ("glutton") + -ie ("-y"), from Latin glutio ("to gulp down, swallow"). First recorded in English c. 1200. Unlike "temperance," which is the disciplined virtue of restraint, or "greed," which is a boundless hunger for material acquisition, gluttony is a specific, sensual surrender. It is the grease-shined chin in candlelight, the oppressive silence of a table littered with picked-clean bones, and the leaden, regretful fullness that follows the feast—a private rebellion against the body's own limits, where pleasure curdles into punishment.
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- 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?”