Antonyms for satiety


Grammar : Noun
Spell : suh-tahy-i-tee
Phonetic Transcription : səˈtaɪ ɪ ti


Definition of satiety

Origin :
  • 1530s, from Middle French satiété, from Latin satietatem (nominative satietas) "abundance, sufficiency, fullness," from satis "enough," from PIE root *sa- "to satisfy" (see sad).
  • noun satiation
Example sentences :
  • What a feast it will be when you are able to gratify ambition to satiety!
  • Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola
  • He recalled all the past to mind, but could not recollect a single hour of satiety.
  • Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
  • But the soul's attachment, owing to its purity, knows no satiety.
  • Extract from : « The Symposium » by Xenophon
  • What failures follow them, what weariness, what satiety and heart-sickness!
  • Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever
  • Of the great game of life, as played by fine people, he had seen it to satiety.
  • Extract from : « Luttrell Of Arran » by Charles James Lever
  • When the charm of novelty and uncertainty is removed, there is danger of satiety.
  • Extract from : « Mary Wollstonecraft » by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • His satiety had fled the moment that his affairs were embarrassed.
  • Extract from : « The Young Duke » by Benjamin Disraeli
  • We have fed them to satiety from the flesh of ourselves and our enemies!
  • Extract from : « Beasts, Men and Gods » by Ferdinand Ossendowski
  • The first in every sport, the last to yield to fatigue or satiety.
  • Extract from : « The Monctons: A Novel, Volume I » by Susanna Moodie
  • The widow replied that everybody present ate fish to satiety at home.
  • Extract from : « New Italian sketches » by John Addington Symonds

Synonyms for satiety

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