satiation
Example Sentences
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And if you use all-in-one pancake mix, you can have these in your belly in minutes and spend the rest of the day in a state of blissful satiation.
From Salon • Aug. 28, 2022
The main tactic used by periodical cicadas is predator satiation: You can’t eat us all.
From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2022
The word “blockchain” is starting to feel fake… Ah, that would be the semantic satiation kicking in.
From The Verge • Sep. 9, 2021
Another possible factor driving overconsumption of ultraprocessed foods is that they are eaten quickly, so people could devour a lot before any satiation mechanisms kick in to slow them down.
From Scientific American • Sep. 24, 2019
I could feel certain you were well out in the Atlantic, experiencing, for just one week, the weather that fell to our lot, I would abate much of my animosity, purely from satiation of revenge.
From Border and Bastille by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.