| Main Entry: | satiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | satiation |
Synonyms: |
engorgement, feeding, filling, glut, gratification, indulgence, overfilling, repletion, saturation, slaking, surfeit |
| Concept: | Satiety. |
| Category: | 3. Prospective Affections |
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-nouns
satiety, satisfaction, saturation, repletion, glut, surfeit; cloyment, satiation; weariness., spoiled child; enfant gete, enfant terrible; too much of a good thing, toujours perdrix; crambe repetita.
-verbs
sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut., gorge, surfeit; bore (weary); tire (fatigue); spoil., have enough of, have quite enough of, have one's fill, have too much of; be satiated
-adjectives
satiated; overgorged; blase, used up, sick of, heartsick.
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| Main Entry: | disgust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aversion; repulsion |
Synonyms: |
abhorrence, abomination, antipathy, detestation, dislike, distaste, hatefulness, hatred, loathing, nausea, nauseation, nauseousness, objection, repugnance, revolt, revulsion, satiation, satiety, sickness, surfeit |
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admiration, appeal, desire, esteem, fondness, like, liking, loving, respect, reverence |
| Main Entry: | ennui |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boredom |
Synonyms: |
apathy, blahs, blues, dejection, depression, dissatisfaction, doldrums, dumps, fatigue, ho hums, lack of interest, languidness, languor, lassitude, listlessness, melancholy, sadness, satiety, spiritlessness, surfeit, tedium, weariness, yawn |
Antonyms: |
energy, enthusiasm, excitement, liveliness, vigor |
| Main Entry: | fill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capacity |
Synonyms: |
all one wants, ample, enough, filler, padding, plenty, satiety, stuffing, sufficiency, sufficient |
Antonyms: |
emptiness |
| Main Entry: | fullness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abundance, breadth |
Synonyms: |
adequateness, ampleness, amplitude, broadness, completeness, completion, comprehensiveness, congestion, copiousness, curvaceousness, dilation, distension, enlargement, entirety, extensiveness, fill, glut, plenitude, plenty, plenum, profusion, repletion, roundness, satiation, satiety, saturation, scope, sufficiency, surfeit, swelling, totality, tumescence, vastness, voluptuousness, wealth, wholeness, wideness |
Antonyms: |
emptiness, incompleteness, need, void, want |
| Main Entry: | satisfaction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving or enjoying a state of comfort, content |
Synonyms: |
achievement, amends, amusement, atonement, bliss, cheerfulness, comfort, compensation, complacency, conciliation, contentedness, contentment, delight, ease, enjoyment, fulfillment, gladness, good fortune, gratification, happiness, indemnification, indulgence, joy, justice, peace of mind, pleasure, pride, propitiation, recompense, redress, refreshment, reimbursement, relief, reparation, repletion, resolution, reward, satiety, serenity, settlement, vindication, well-being |
Antonyms: |
discontent, dissatisfaction, need, unhappiness, want |
| Main Entry: | surfeit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
Synonyms: |
bellyful, glut, overabundance, overflow, overfullness, overindulgence, overkill, overmuch, overplus, plenitude, plethora, profusion, remainder, repletion, satiety, satisfaction, saturation, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, up to here |
| Notes: | plethora is too many of a good or bad thing and surfeit is too much of a good thing |
Antonyms: |
base, core, lack, main, necessity, need, want |
| Main Entry: | overindulgence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | debauchery |
Synonyms: |
depravity, dissipation, excess, gluttony, intemperance, orgy, overdrinking, overeating, satiation, satiety, spoiling |
| Main Entry: | saturation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | satiation |
Synonyms: |
concentration, imbibition, impregnation, intensity, interpenetration, permeation, satiety, surfeit |