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satiation|seɪʃɪˈeɪʃən|
[ad. L. *satiātiōn-em, n. of action f. satiāre to satiate.]
a. The action of satiating or fact of being satiated.
1638T. Whitaker Blood of Grape 4 As if Satiation were the Usher of diseases. 1656S. Holland Zara iii. vi. (1719) 140 What do we get by these Gim-cracks? Satiation of our Lusts. 1811Shelley St. Irvyne x, From my earliest youth, before it was quenched by complete satiation, curiosity..was the passion by which all the other emotions of my mind were intellectually organized. 1839De Quincey Recoll. Lakes Wks. 1862 II. 54 The same satiation never can take place, which too frequently deadens the genial enjoyment of those who have a surfeit of books, and a monotony of leisure. 1856Grote Greece ii. xciv. XII. 244 Clinging to the hope that Alexander, when possessed of the three southern capitals and the best part of the Persian empire, might have reached the point of satiation.
b. Psychol. The point at which satisfaction of a need or familiarity with a stimulus reduces or ends an organism's responsiveness or motivation. Also attrib.
1935Adams & Zener tr. Lewin's Dynamic Theory of Personality viii. 254 The progressive process of satiation is evidenced by such typical criteria as variation, dissolution of the whole.., inattention, forgetting. 1944Köhler & Wallach in Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. LXXXVIII. 276/1 We propose to call only the alterations of T-objects ‘figural after-effects’ and to refer to the affection of the medium as ‘satiation’. 1954Woodworth & Schlosberg Exper. Psychol. (rev. ed.) xiv. 426/1 Satiation.. is not offered as an explanation of the illusion itself, but as a cause of its reduction and final destruction. 1967J. R. Millenson Princ. Behavioral Analysis (1969) xv. 367 There are drive operations that reduce or eliminate reinforcing value... The most universal of these is satiation—repeatedly presenting the reinforcer until it loses its power to reinforce. 1975Schneider & Tarshis Physiol. Psychol. xvi. 276 Studies have confirmed the notion that the ventro⁓medial hypothalamus comes into play during satiation to inhibit eating. Ibid. 283 The transfused rats no longer seemed to be hungry... Davis took this to mean that the blood does carry an off, or satiation, signal. 1978F. Leukel Essent. Physiol. Psychol. xii. 197/2 Satiation stimuli are more readily aroused. |