satiety
English
Alternative forms
- saciety (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French satieté, from Latin satietas.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /səˈtaɪ.ə.ti/, /səˈtaɪ.ɪ.ti/
- (obsolete) IPA(key): /səˈsaɪ.ɪ.ti/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪɪti
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.
- 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 2, page 277:
- Satiety and mortification are the extremes of vanity, and both are equally attended by envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness.
- 1995, Britt Marie Burton-Freeman, Satiety Induced by Fat, Carbohydrate and Protein: A Potential Role for Cholecystokinin (CCK) and Serotonin (5HT)
- Surgical techniques have also been instrumental in understanding the pathways leading to satiety...
- 2010, Egidio Del Fabbro, Wendy Demark-wahnefried, Vickie Baracos, Nutrition and the Cancer Patient, Oxford University Press, USA (→ISBN), page 193:
- On the other hand, early satiety did not correlate with delayed gastric emptying...
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state of being perfectly satiated
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