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Definition of Satiation
1. Noun. The state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more.
2. Noun. The act of achieving full gratification.
Definition of Satiation
1. n. Satiety.
Definition of Satiation
1. Noun. The state of being satiated or sated, of being full, of being at maximum capacity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Satiation
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Satiation
1. Full gratification of a need or desire followed by a state of relative insensitivity to that particular need or desire. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Satiation
Literary usage of Satiation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Wealth and Welfare: Economics for High Schools by Charles Lee Raper (1906)
"The wonderful being, man, his wants, and the process of their satiation are, as
we have said, the center of all economic reasoning and action. ..."
2. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1900)
"... then the fear of the Lord may be said to be a satiation with Wisdom.1 For the
whole being has then become filled with it. This is not forced into the ..."
3. Natural Value by Friedrich Wieser (1893)
"... LAW OF THE satiation OF WANT EVERY one knows that the desire for food decreases
as the want is gradually satisfied, until, finally, when what we may ..."
4. Health Consequences of Smoking: Nicotine Addiction a Report of the Surgeon by DIANE Publishing Company, C. Everett Koop, M.D. (1995)
"These include satiation, rapid smoking, and focused smoking. satiation In this
procedure cigarette consumption is dramatically increased prior to attempted ..."
5. Gender Equality and Investments in Adolescents in the Rural Philippines by Howarth E. Bouis (1998)
"These allocation outcomes can be modeled as a lexicographic utility function (Encarnacion
1990) in which satiation of hunger is given top priority, ..."
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