satiety

English

Alternative forms

• saciety (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French satieté, from Latin satietas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈtaɪ.ə.ti/, /səˈtaɪ.ɪ.ti/
• IPA^(key): /səˈsaɪ.ɪ.ti/ (obsolete)

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪɪti

Noun

satiety (usually uncountable, plural satieties)

1. The state of being satiated.

   Eating half of that loaf of bread has left me in a state of utter satiety.

   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, 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...

Synonyms

• satiatedness
• satiation

Antonyms

• hunger, appetite

Related terms

• satiate
• satiated
• insatiety

Translations

state of being perfectly satiated

• Arabic: شَبَع m (šabaʕ)
• Bulgarian: насита (bg) f (nasita), насищане (bg) n (nasištane)
• Catalan: sacietat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 飽腹感／饱腹感 (bǎofùgǎn)

• Czech: sytost f, nasycenost f
• Danish: mæthed (da) c
• Dutch: verzadiging (nl) f
• Finnish: kylläisyys (fi)
• French: satiété (fr) f
• Galician: saciedade (gl) f, fartura f
• Georgian: სიმაძღრე (simaʒɣre)
• German: Sattheit f, Sättigung (de) f, Befriedigung (de) f
• Greek: κορεσμός (el) m (koresmós)

  Ancient: κόρος m (kóros)

• Hebrew: שֹבַע m (sóva'), שָֹבְעָה (he) f (sov'á)
• Latin: satietas f
• Maltese: xebgħa f
• Manx: sonnys m
• Polish: sytość (pl) f, najedzenie n
• Portuguese: saciedade (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਰੱਜ m (rajja)
• Romanian: sațietate (ro) f
• Russian: сы́тость (ru) f (sýtostʹ)
• Spanish: saciedad (es) f
• Tocharian B: soylñe
• Turkish: tokluk (tr)
• Welsh: syrffed (cy) m
• ǃXóõ: da̰m