satiety

Roget category 869

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.3. Prospective affections

#869. Satiety

noun

satiety, satisfaction, saturation, repletion, glut, surfeit — cloyment^†, satiation — weariness etc. 841.
spoiled child — enfant gete [Fr.], enfant terrible [Fr.] — too much of a good thing, toujours perdrix [Fr.] — crambe repetita [Lat.].

verb

sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate — cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut.
, gorge, surfeit — bore etc. (weary) 841 — tire etc. (fatigue) 688 — spoil.
have enough of, have quite enough of, have one's fill, have too much of — be satiated etc. adj..

adjective

satiated etc. v. — overgorged^† — blase, used up, sick of, heartsick.

interjection

enough!, hold!, eheu jam satis! [Lat.], basta! ^†,

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