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Gluttony vs Obesity - What's the difference?

gluttony | obesity |

As nouns the difference between gluttony and obesity

is that gluttony is the vice of eating to excess while obesity is the state of being obese due to an excess of body fat.

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.

    See also

    * alimentiveness

    obesity

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia obesity) (-)
  • The state of being obese due to an excess of body fat.
  • Derived terms

    * diabesity