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Satiation

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Satiation may refer to:

  • Satiety, feeling "full" and satisfied after eating; the cessation of hunger. See also Cholecystokinin-mediated satiety.
  • Economic satiation, where increasing the amount of a good reduces the worth of each individual unit of it
  • Predator satiation, an anti-predator adaptation involving high population densities of the prey
  • Semantic satiation, where repetition of a word or phrase causes it to temporarily lose meaning