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Answer for the clue "Extreme gluttony ", 13 letters:
rapaciousness

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being rapacious; extreme gluttony

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. extreme gluttony [syn: edacity , esurience , rapacity , voracity , voraciousness ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rapacious \Ra*pa"cious\ (r[.a]*p[=a]"sh[u^]s), a. [L. rapax, -acis, from rapere to seize and carry off, to snatch away. See Rapid .] Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. `` The downfall of the rapacious and licentious ...

Usage examples of rapaciousness.

Constantine was disgraced by the opposite yet reconcilable vices of rapaciousness and prodigality.

Syrians must have patiently submitted to the lust, the rapaciousness and the cruelty, of the faithful legions of Gaul.

Every art was tried to extort from the people the gold and silver which he scattered with a lavish hand from Persia to France: ^81 his reign was marked by the vicissitudes or rather by the combat, of rapaciousness and avarice, of splendor and poverty.

It had stripped the waffs bare, it was encircling them with a rapaciousness that was almost sentient.