Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A being or becoming satiated or filled; also, the state of being satiated.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Satiety.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more
- n. the act of achieving full gratification
Examples
“The level of luxury at which people imagine satiation is always three times the value of their current consumption.”
Happiness Police, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Ever so classily, they belched in satiation as they exited.”
The Huffington Post: Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs. Senior Citizens : Spinning Marty
“Another timeworn—but largely ineffective—technique is known as satiation.”
“Slower digestion leads to greater long-term satiation, since you avoid the blood sugar roller coaster ride that leads to hunger surges a few hours later.”
“But if we repulse or avenge it we feel satisfaction and satiation, which is a pleasure of triumph, for as the possession of good gladdens the heart, so the victory over evil exalts the spirits.”
“So there is no real reason to expect "satiation" at any level of per capita income that I can foresee.”
Happiness Police, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The ultimate diet would be one that offers meals and snacks that rapidly lead to feeling pleasantly full (technically called satiety), delay the return of hunger pangs (technically called satiation), are pleasing and satisfying, meet the body’s needs for energy and nutrients, and work to prevent chronic disease.”
“Sometimes people pray petitionary prayers and what they asked for in prayer happens (call this a 'satiation' of the prayer request).”
“Tarhouni describes the humanitarian satiation in there as deplorable.”
Voice of America: Libyan humanitarian: Misrata Siege Denies City Needed Supplies
“Nico ranges from satiation to alarm to bemusement to curiosity to even something like despair, or at least disappointment.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘satiation’.
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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FYI
deus ex machina, cantatrice, tartarean, fowl, fodder, bridle, glut, exultation, remuneration, satiation, allotropy, chthonic and 4 more...
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nominative case collection
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
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Tandem repeat
Words that have an adjacent repeat of three or more letters. I've omitted most words ending in "-inging" where both g's are hard. I've excluded words composed solely of repeats and the plurals of t...
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conglomeration
wherewithal, wan, zoonotic, zoonosis, nebulous, nefarious, nascent, quiescent, quell, undercroft, unwitting, unutterable and 658 more...
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words worth remembering
mellifluous, tedious, ennui, plethora, sanguine, verisimilitude, cacophony, ubiquitous, superfluous, inchoate, obsequious, ersatz and 37 more...
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verbest
Tweets
Looking for tweets for satiation.
dgstone Looks clunky, yet flows so well when spoken aloud. Mar 13, 2008