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Gluttony vs Greediness - What's the difference?

gluttony | greediness |

As nouns the difference between gluttony and greediness

is that gluttony is the vice of eating to excess while greediness is the state of being greedy; greed.

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

    greediness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being greedy; greed.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
  • *:Thereto the body of a dog she had, / Full of fell ravin and fierce greedinesse […].

    • Synonyms

    * See also