The practice, habit, or philosophy of eating excessively or with excessive attention to luxury foods; culinary excess.
From gourmand with the English suffix '-ism' (denoting a doctrine, system, or practice). English speakers created this term to describe gourmandism as a distinct lifestyle or philosophy.
Adding '-ism' to a word instantly elevates it from describing a person to describing an entire worldview or movement—'gourmandism' makes greedy eating sound like a sophisticated philosophy!
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