from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun The condition of being full or gratified beyond the point of satisfaction; surfeit.
from The Century Dictionary.
noun Fullness; sufficiency.
noun A glutted or cloyed state or condition; an excess of gratification which excites loathing; gratification to the full or beyond natural desire; surfeit.
noun Synonyms Repletion, cloyment, glut. See satisfy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun The state of being satiated or glutted; fullness of gratification, either of the appetite or of any sensual desire; fullness beyond desire; an excess of gratification which excites wearisomeness or loathing; repletion; satiation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun The state of being perfectly satiated.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French satiete, from Old French saciete, from Latin satietās, from satis, sufficient; see sā- in Indo-European roots.]
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From Middle French satieté, from Latin satietas.
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Examples
Toxins slow down the time it takes for you to feel full this is called the satiety response time.
Then he also resolved on taking his degrees in vice; but, unlike others, he did so _with disgust_, and he called satiety, not the _quantity_, but the _quality_ of the aliment.
We "cynics" tell her that under Sin's fine clothes there is a breast cancer-eaten, and at the bottom of the wine there is a bitter dreg called satiety; but Virtue does not much heed that; like the woman she is, she only notes that Sin drives a pair of ponies in the sunshine, while she herself is often left to plod wearily through the everlasting falling rain.
He believes getting less sleep may disrupt natural hormonal balances - for example, reducing the amount of leptin, otherwise known as the satiety hormone - and could thereby cause those individuals to eat more.
The weight management claim is based around the idea of satiety, and testing has demonstrated the 97 per cent protein ingredient can deliver in this area, said Rousselot communication manager, Caroline Brochard-Garnier.
elgiad007 commented on the word satiety
As defined by Homer Simpson: Belt-popping fullness.
November 6, 2008