satiety
Syllables: sa·ti·e·ty/səˈtaɪ̯ɪti/
satiety noun: the state of being satiated.
Noun
satiety (usually uncountable, plural satieties)
- The state of being satiated.
- Eating half of that loaf of bread has left me in a state of utter satiety.
- Satiety and mortification are the extremes of vanity, and both are equally attended by envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 277
- Synonyms:
- repletion, satiatedness, satiation
satiety meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Punjabi
satiety in Tamil
- முழு நிறைவு நிலை, நிறைவு, மிகுதி, கண்டபூர்த்தி, அளவுக்குமிஞ்சிப் போக நுகர்கை, தெவிட்டு
satiety in Urdu
- سیری
satiety in Malayalam
- satisfaction, satiation, repleteness
- അതിതുഷ്ടി, തൃപ്തി, തികവ്, തിക, നിറവ്, മടുപ്പുവരൽ
satiety in Punjabi
- state of being perfectly satiated
- ਰੱਜ rajja
More languagesFewer languages
- satiety in Sanskrit
- पूर्ति pūrti
- satiety in Arabic
- شَبَع šabaʕ
Examples of satiety in a sentence
- Surgical techniques have also been instrumental in understanding the pathways leading to satiety...1995, Britt Marie Burton-Freeman, Satiety Induced by Fat, Carbohydrate and Protein: A Potential Role for Cholecystokinin (CCK) and...
- On the other hand, early satiety did not correlate with delayed gastric emptying...2010, Egidio Del Fabbro, Wendy Demark-wahnefried, Vickie Baracos, Nutrition and the Cancer Patient, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN...
Synonyms of satiety
Antonyms
Forms of satiety
| plural | satieties |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | saciety |
Origin of satiety
Borrowed from Middle French satieté, from Latin satietas.
Words formed from satiety
Words that rhyme with satiety
Questions about satiety
- What does satiety mean?
- Satiety means the state of being satiated.
- What is satiety in Tamil?
- Satiety in Tamil is முழு நிறைவு நிலை, நிறைவு, மிகுதி. See Satiety meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use satiety in a sentence?
- Surgical techniques have also been instrumental in understanding the pathways leading to satiety...
- What part of speech is satiety?
- Satiety is a noun.
- How do you pronounce satiety?
- Satiety is pronounced /səˈtaɪ̯ɪti/.
- What is the plural of satiety?
- The plural of satiety is satieties.
Words near satiety in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: satiety (page history and authors); satiety (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); satiety (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); satiety (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); पूर्ति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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