Meanings
plural satieties · alternative obsolete saciety
- uncountableusuallyThe state of being satiated.
Eating half of that loaf of bread has left me in a state of utter satiety.
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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 277Surgical 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 Serotonin (5HT)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, page 193Synonyms: repletion, satiatedness, satiation
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe state of being satiated.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinsatietas
- Middle Frenchsatieté
- Englishsatiety
Borrowed from Middle French satieté, from Latin satietas.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek κόρος
- κόρος (kóros)state of being perfectly satiated
Arabic شَبَع
- شَبَع (šabaʕ)state of being perfectly satiated
Bulgarian насита, насищане
- насита (nasita)state of being perfectly satiated
- насищане (nasištane)state of being perfectly satiated
Catalan sacietat
- sacietatstate of being perfectly satiated
Chinese Mandarin 飽腹感 /饱腹感
- 飽腹感 /饱腹感 (bǎofùgǎn)state of being perfectly satiated
Czech sytost, nasycenost
- sytoststate of being perfectly satiated
- nasycenoststate of being perfectly satiated
Danish mæthed
- mæthedstate of being perfectly satiated
Dutch verzadiging
- verzadigingstate of being perfectly satiated
Finnish kylläisyys
- kylläisyysstate of being perfectly satiated
French satiété
- satiétéstate of being perfectly satiated
German Sattheit, Sättigung
- Sattheitstate of being perfectly satiated
- Sättigungstate of being perfectly satiated
- Befriedigungstate of being perfectly satiated
Greek κορεσμός
- κορεσμός (koresmós)state of being perfectly satiated
Hebrew שֹׂבַע, שׇׂבְעָה
- שֹׂבַע (sóva)state of being perfectly satiated
- שׇׂבְעָה (sov'á)state of being perfectly satiated
Italian sazietà
- sazietàstate of being perfectly satiated
Latin satietas
- satietasstate of being perfectly satiated
Polish sytość, najedzenie
- sytośćstate of being perfectly satiated
- najedzeniestate of being perfectly satiated
Portuguese saciedade
- saciedadestate of being perfectly satiated
Punjabi ਰੱਜ
- ਰੱਜ (rajja)state of being perfectly satiated
Romanian sațietate
- sațietatestate of being perfectly satiated
Russian сы́тость
- сы́тость (sýtostʹ)state of being perfectly satiated
Spanish saciedad
- saciedadstate of being perfectly satiated
Turkish tokluk
- toklukstate of being perfectly satiated
Welsh syrffed
- syrffedstate of being perfectly satiated
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with satiety
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satiety. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/satiety
“satiety.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/satiety. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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