satiety

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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.

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  1. noun The condition of being full or gratified beyond the point of satisfaction; surfeit.

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  • Instead of the listlessness of Childe Harold, he is active and enterprising; such as the noble pilgrim would have been, but for the satiety which had relaxed his energies. —  The Life of Lord Byron
  • This he demonstrates to satiety, and his astonishing Necrophori, which adapt themselves so admirably to circumstances and triumph over the experimental difficulties to which he subjects them, seem scarcely to exceed the limits of those actions which at bottom are merely unconscious. —  Fabre, Poet of Science
  • Lacking adequate energy for joining in them, he has at best but a tepid interest in the amusements of his children; and he is called a wet blanket by his friends THE VICE OF EXCESS Perpetual amusement-seeking: brings ennui, satiety, and disgust.+--"All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy," is as true as that "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." —  Practical Ethics
  • Already the fresh eagerness of youth has palled into satiety, already some of its sparkling-wine for him is bitter as vinegar; with him already pleasure has become hectic fever instead of a healthy glow. —  St. Winifred's, or The World of School
  • Then he ate to satiety, and went to sleep. —  Mystics and Saints of Islam
 

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  1. French satiete, from Old French saciete, from Latin satietās, from satis, sufficient; see sā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also saciety; from Old French satiete, sazieted, French satiété = Provencal Spanish saciedad = Portuguese saciedade = Italian sazietà, from Latin satieta(t-)s, sufficiency, abundance, satiety, from satis, enough, sufficient: see satiate, satisfy.
 

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