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