fullness
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈfʊlnəs/
:
plenitud
- After finishing the meal, I felt a pleasant sense of fullness in my stomach.
- fullness of life
- aural fullness
- submucosal fullness
Leptin is our fullness signal, so the opposite of Krelan.
- Leptin is our fullness signal, so the opposite of Krelan.
- So I always used to sacrifice a little size and fullness to get that shape as well.
- And so they completely mucked up your hunger circuitry and your fullness or satiety circuitry.
- You can get better at registering sense of fullness or lack of fullness in a very particular way.
- So it's giving your boob some extra lift as well as fullness.
- Not eyes, not noses, not the sharpness of cheekbones, not the fullness of lips.
- And that and that just shows you these foods are designed to make people overeat, to overcome our natural appetite fullness signals in the brain.
- We see that despite eating the same food, often women have higher levels of hunger, lower levels of fullness as well.
Examples
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You feel your blood coursing and the fullness of your muscles.
Fiction book (2001) -
It kind of adds fullness to the lashes, lengthens and separates.
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But this really does add some fullness and helps everything to stay in place.
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The perfect fullness of her figure.
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My hands, when they finally grew quiet, fell to my stomach and I felt a fullness there.
Fiction book (2001) -
So if you need to give a little bit more fullness, you can without having a harsh line.
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And they learnt the secrets of the ground... that it should deliver to them its fullness and strength.
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Affected patients usually complain of aural fullness, pressure, and awareness of a humming sound.
Academic text (2005) -
An 83-year-old woman presented with a 6-week history of fullness and diminished hearing in the left ear.
Academic text (2006) -
Describing the richness and fullness of human experience may require the use of metaphors, similes, and symbols.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
3
8.0
The feeling of being full after eating and not wanting more food
1
8.3
A large amount of something that you can use
1
6.6
A feeling of being full after eating enough food
1
3.5
A large amount of things or resources that is more than enough
A feeling of being very full after eating
A state of being full of many people or things
A feeling of not being hungry after eating that makes you not want more food
Antonyms
Compounds
How Full
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2.7
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3.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word fullness comes from the old English word full, meaning 'filled', plus the ending -ness, meaning 'state'. So fullness usually means the state of being full or completely 'filled', like a container or a satisfied stomach.