gulosity

[ gyoo-los-i-tee ]

noun

1. gluttony or greediness.

gulosity

/ ɡjʊˈlɒsɪtɪ /

noun

1. archaic.
   greed or gluttony

Word History and Origins

Origin of gulosity¹

1490–1500; < Late Latin gulōsitās, equivalent to Latin gulōs ( us ) ( gul ( a ) throat, appetite + -ōsus -ose ¹ ) + itās -ity

Word History and Origins

Origin of gulosity¹

C16: from Late Latin gulōsitās, from Latin gulōsus gluttonous, from gula gullet

Example Sentences

Alexandra could be relied upon to produce a malapropism on occasions, the most notable being her comment on the gulosity displayed by the youngest member of a Mobile Jewish family upon completing his thirteenth year: Alexandra declared that Aaron Stein was the greediest boy she had ever seen, that he ate fourteen ears of corn at his Menopause.

From Literature

The iron may be a Scottish squirelet, full of gulosity and "gigmanity"; the magnet an English plebeian, and moving rag-and-dust mountain, coarse, proud, irascible, imperious; nevertheless, behold how they embrace, and inseparably cleave to one another!

From Project Gutenberg

Immanuel Kant was almost the only profound speculative thinker who was decidedly convivial, and given to gulosity, at least at his dinner.

From Project Gutenberg

He writes of him thus:—"A certain parasite called Golias, who in our time obtained wide notoriety for his gluttony and lechery, and by addiction to gulosity and debauchery deserved his surname, being of excellent culture but of bad manners, and of no moral discipline, uttered oftentimes and in many forms, both of rhythm and metre, infamous libels against the Pope and Curia of Rome, with no less impudence than imprudence."

From Project Gutenberg

If we reflect a moment, we shall find that even in the present day, on our own stage, the infallible and inexhaustible source of the ludicrous is the same ungovernable impulses of sensuality in collision with higher duties; or cowardice, childish vanity, loquacity, gulosity, laziness, &c.

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