Gluttony is eating and drinking far more than you need. A feast of gluttony.
It is one of the seven deadly sins and the only one that used to be a compliment at a feast. Gluttony is judged against need rather than pleasure, which is why the word sounds so severe.
1noungluttonyEating and drinking far more than you need.
“The whole meal was gluttony and everybody enjoyed it.”
gluttony is a habit.
Old French glutonie comes from Latin gluto, a glutton, from gluttire, to swallow.
Latin
glutio
Old French
glutonie
English, today
gluttony
From Old French glutonie, from gloton + -ie, from Latin glutio, equivalent to glutton + y.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA