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gourmandism

noun

Etymology

From gourmand + -ism.

  1. derived from gormant — “a glutton”
  2. inherited from gourmaunt
  3. suffixed as gourmandism — “gourmand + ism”

Definitions

  1. A passion for and deep interest in good food.

    • 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.

  2. Gluttony.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gourmandism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA