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单词 satiety
释义 sa·ti·e·ty
\səˈtīə]d.]ē, ]t], ]ē also ˈsāsh(ē)ə]\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: Middle French satieté, from Latin satietat-, satietas, from satis enough
1. : the quality or state of being fed to or beyond capacity : fullness, surfeit
 < gorged to satiety after a big Thanksgiving dinner >
2.
 a. obsolete : full measure
  < a satiety of joy, and an uninterrupted happiness — Joseph Addison >
 b. archaic : a completely adequate or more than adequate amount or extent
  < had miracles even to satiety — J.H.Newman >
3.
 a. : excessive gratification of a desire
  < gave one of the soldiers leave to be drunk six weeks, in hopes of curing him by satiety — William Cowper >
 b. : the quality or state of being cloyed by overindulgence
  < when natural pleasures had been indulged in to satiety, pleasures … were imported from the East to stimulate the exhausted appetite — J.A.Froude >
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