gluttony

Other forms of gluttony

plural

gluttonies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gluttony

What does gluttony mean?

gluttony means "habitual eating to excess". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gluttony?

gluttony has 3 syllables: glut-to-ny. The stress falls on "glut". In IPA it is /ˈɡlʌtəni/.

What is another word for gluttony?

Close synonyms include overeating, gula. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gluttony a common word?

gluttony is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.