satiety
noun
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You may have accurately guessed that satiety is related to satisfy, satiate (meaning "to satisfy fully or to excess"), and sate (which means "to glut" or "to satisfy to the full"). Satiety, along with the others, ultimately comes from the Latin word satis, which means "enough." English speakers apparently couldn't get enough of satis- derived words in the 15th and 16th centuries, when all of these words entered the language. Satiety itself was borrowed into English in the mid-1500s from the Middle French word satieté of the same meaning.
Examples of satiety in a Sentence
Alessandra Signorelli, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024
Craig’s Lee is a pilgrim in search of pleasure, sensation, satiety.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024
Experts use The satiety index to measure the satiety of different foods.
—Julie Marks, Verywell Health, 3 Sep. 2024
The scientists found that the nausea-inducing brain circuit, which also triggers aversion to food, is separate from the circuit that helps the drugs to produce satiety, the feeling of fullness that prevents people from eating more.
—Mariana Lenharo, Scientific American, 12 July 2024
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“Satiety.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/satiety. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
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