GLUTTONY Synonyms

• a quantity much larger than is needed

• immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits

• the state of being more than full

• excessive indulgence

• more than is needed, desired, or required

• the disposition and habits of a gourmand

• excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves

• reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

• an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires

• a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone

• the act of indulging or gratifying a desire

• foolish or senseless behavior

• the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution

• the quality of being intemperate

• consumption of alcoholic drinks

• excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence

• excessive desire to eat

• extreme gluttony

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

• the Babylonian goddess of healing and consort of Ninurta