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Gluttony vs Overconsumption - What's the difference?

gluttony | overconsumption | Synonyms |

Overconsumption is a synonym of gluttony.



As nouns the difference between gluttony and overconsumption

is that gluttony is the vice of eating to excess while overconsumption is excessive consumption.

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

    overconsumption

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Excessive consumption
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 21, David E. Sanger, Rejecting Bush Era, Reclaiming Values, New York Times citation
    • , passage=It seemed a call to end an age of overconsumption

    Synonyms

    *gluttony

    Related terms

    *overconsume