gluttony
Sinful excessive eating
Gluttony is excessive eating or drinking—indulgence beyond what the body needs or can reasonably enjoy.
One of the seven deadly sins in Christian tradition, it represents lack of self-control around physical appetites.
The word extends to overconsumption generally: His gluttony for power knew no bounds.
A glutton is someone who eats to excess, or figuratively, someone insatiable: a glutton for punishment.
Intense, consuming hunger
- insatiabilityInability to feel satisfied
- appetiteDesire for food
- hungerNeed for nourishment
- cravingPowerful urge to have
devouring · gobbling · gulping · wolfing · scarfing · gorging · pigging out · overeating
Happy, satisfied feeling
- indulgenceYielding to desire
- gratificationPleasure from satisfying desires
- decadenceMoral decline through excess
- epicureanismPursuit of refined pleasures
sensualism · self-indulgence · luxury · voluptuousness · sybaritic · libertine · debauchery · dissolution
Excessive desire for wealth
- prideSatisfaction from one's achievements
- angerIntense hostile emotion
- envyResentful longing for another's
- wrathFierce, punishing anger
lust · sloth · avarice · vice · deadly · mortal · cardinal · transgression
Formal celebratory meal
- buffetSelf-service meal display
- smorgasbordVaried self-serve meal
- spreadTo distribute widely
- feastElaborate ceremonial meal
groaning board · potluck · all-you-can-eat · repast · gourmandizing · epicure · gourmet · foodie
Excessive consumption or enjoyment
- surfeitExcessive quantity, often cloying
- overconsumptionExcessive use of resources
- intemperanceHabitual lack of restraint
- immoderationLack of self-restraint
extravagance · wastefulness · profligacy · satiation · dissipation · exorbitance · squandering · overabundance
ravenousness
Intense, consuming hunger
- insatiabilityInability to feel satisfied
- appetiteDesire for food
- hungerNeed for nourishment
craving · devouring · gobbling · gulping · wolfing · scarfing · gorging · pigging out · overeating · guzzling
pleasure
Happy, satisfied feeling
- indulgenceYielding to desire
- gratificationPleasure from satisfying desires
- decadenceMoral decline through excess
epicureanism · sensualism · self-indulgence · luxury · voluptuousness · sybaritic · libertine · debauchery · dissolution · abandon
greed
Excessive desire for wealth
- prideSatisfaction from one's achievements
- angerIntense hostile emotion
- envyResentful longing for another's
wrath · lust · sloth · avarice · vice · deadly · mortal · cardinal · transgression · temptation
banquet
Formal celebratory meal
- buffetSelf-service meal display
- smorgasbordVaried self-serve meal
- spreadTo distribute widely
feast · groaning board · potluck · all-you-can-eat · repast · gourmandizing · epicure · gourmet · foodie · gastronome
overindulgence
Excessive consumption or enjoyment
- surfeitExcessive quantity, often cloying
- overconsumptionExcessive use of resources
- intemperanceHabitual lack of restraint
immoderation · extravagance · wastefulness · profligacy · satiation · dissipation · exorbitance · squandering · overabundance · superfluity
- human follyhubris, pride, vanity, greed, arrogance
- selfishnessselfishness, greed, egoism, narcissism, self-centeredness
- overeatingovereating, binge eating, gorging, overindulgence, compulsive eating
- sinoriginal sin, mortal sin, venial sin, deadly sins, seven deadly sins
- sinsgreed, lust, deadly sin, sloth, coveting
- moral theologyconscience, mortal sin, venial sin, natural law, moral law
gluttonyabstinence
Voluntary forgoing of indulgences
fasting · starvation · abstemiousness · undereating · self-starvation
gluttonytemperance
Habitual moderation in behavior
moderation · self-restraint · self-control · frugality · abstemiousness
gluttonyself-control
Ability to restrain impulses
willpower · discipline · self-mastery · moderation · restraint
- glutton for punishmentOne who seeks suffering