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satiety

satiety

3 8.0
The feeling of being full after eating and not wanting more food
  • noun
  • /səˈtaɪ.ə.ti/
translation icon : saciación
  • The joy of a big dinner often comes with a feeling of satiety that makes you want to relax afterward.
  • hunger and satiety
  • satiety responsiveness
  • state of satiety

Your hunger hormones will turn off and your satiety hormones will turn on.

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Examples

  • But most overweight people have "delayed satiety," and this is genetically determined.

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  • Non-ulcer dyspepsia presents with upper GI pain with belching, bloating, and early satiety.

    Academic text (2014)
  • We need to consider that alcohol does not affect satiety like other nutrients.

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  • People who do not sense or react to satiety as clearly as others may be more likely to eat to excess when the opportunity presents.

    Academic text (2014)
  • The researchers also suggest further work to identify ways to increase satiety responsiveness as an approach to obesity prevention.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Your hunger hormones will turn off and your satiety hormones will turn on.

  • Through a series of steps, including a 12-hour fast, the participants rated their hunger and satiety on a visual analog scale.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Nutritional science is crystal clear that fat triggers satiety far more effectively and for a longer term than carbohydrates do.

    Blog text (28)
  • Fiber, in particular, can help stabilize blood sugar, lower cholesterol, improve bowel function, manage hunger and satiety, and promote weight loss.

    Academic text (2015)
  • After a hearty breakfast, I felt a sense of satiety that lasted until lunchtime.

Synonyms

satisfaction
vssatiety
43 2.5

Giving someone what they want or need

is the eating-specific state of full contentment that ends eating
fullness
vssatiety
7 2.7

A state in which something has as much inside as it can hold

is specifically about feeling full from eating and stopping intake
full stomach
vssatiety
5 1.0

The feeling you have after you eat enough food

is a general feeling of being full and unable to take more
satiation
vssatiety
1 6.6

A feeling of being full after eating enough food

is the state of being satisfactorily full so one cannot eat more
repletion
vssatiety
1 9.0

A feeling of being too full after eating or drinking

is the satisfactorily full state that stops further eating
sense of fullness
vssatiety
3.8

A feeling of not being hungry after eating that makes you not want more food

is the state of being satisfactorily full so no more can be taken

Antonyms

Always wanting more and never having enough

How Satiated

fullness
7 2.7
satiety
3 8.0
satisfaction
192 2.2
hunger
266 1.0

Surface Forms

satiety singular
satieties plural

Morphology

satiety = sate (semi-transparent) = sate + ity

Built from 'sate' + '-ity' which nominalizes the verb, but 'satiety' is a relatively formal/rare noun and its form is not immediately obvious to average learners.

Etymology

The word satiety comes from the Latin root satis, which means 'enough', and you can see the same root in satisfy and satisfied. So satiety is the feeling of having had 'enough' to eat, being comfortably full.