How to use gulosity in a sentence
- Love of the drink, or pleasing the appetite, which we call gulosity. ...
- This gulosity, which Clemens Alexandrinus calleth the throat devil, and the belly devil is the first cause. ...
- Gulosity is the general nature of it: excess is the matter: depravation of reason is its special form.
What is the meaning of gulosity?
Gulosity is a rare word for gluttony that sees only occasional use in English these days. It derives via Middle English and Anglo-French from the Latin adjective gulosus ("gluttonous") and ultimately from the noun "gula" ("gullet").
Is gulosity a noun?
Gulosity (noun) (rare)
Late 15th century: from Latin gulositas (from gulosus 'gluttonous') + -ity.