repletion

American  

[ri-plee-shuhn] / rɪˈpli ʃən /

noun

1. the condition of being abundantly supplied or filled; fullness.

2. overfullness resulting from excessive eating or drinking; surfeit.

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repletion British  

/ rɪˈpliːʃən /

noun

1. the state or condition of being replete; fullness, esp excessive fullness due to overeating

2. the satisfaction of a need or desire

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Etymology

Origin of repletion

1350–1400; Middle English replecioun surfeit (< Middle French ) < Late Latin replētiōn- (stem of replētiō ), equivalent to Latin replēt ( us ) ( see replete) + -iōn- -ion

Explanation

Repletion is a condition of being completely full of something. Your repletion at the end of a meal probably means you'll skip dessert. Repletion is experienced by people who are full or satisfied by the amount of food they've eaten, but it can also describe other kinds of fullness. You might have a satisfied sense of repletion after being showered with praise — in other words, you're feeling utterly satiated with compliments. Being replete means being full, filled, or well-supplied, and both words come from a Latin root, repletus, or "filled."

Example Sentences

With repletion came dissatisfaction: a hunger for something more, or for something different.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2018

Also repellent at first is the man's habit of stuffing his leisurely, Latinate sentences to repletion with adjectives and adverbs to modify, often tautologically, a stark noun or gruesome verb.

From Time Magazine Archive

Everything serves as fuel for passion: abstinence sharpens it, repletion strengthens it, virtue keeps it awake .

From Time Magazine Archive

We have to earn silence, then, to work for it: to make it not an absence but a presence; not emptiness but repletion.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not wise to feed a starving man to repletion.

From Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure by Gilson, Charles