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Gluttony vs Gourmandism - What's the difference?

gluttony | gourmandism |

As nouns the difference between gluttony and gourmandism

is that gluttony is the vice of eating to excess while gourmandism is a passion for and deep interest in good food.

gluttony

English

Noun

(-)
  • The vice of eating to excess.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.

    Related terms

    * glut * glutton * gluttonous * gluttonry

    See also

    * alimentiveness

    gourmandism

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A passion for and deep interest in good food.
  • * 1825 , ,
    • When gourmandism turns into gluttony, voracity, or perversion, it loses its name, its attributes, and all of its meaning, and becomes fit subject for the moralist who can preach upon it or the doctor who can cure it with his prescriptions.
  • gluttony

    • Synonyms

    * (passion) gourmetism, epicurism