Satiation
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Satiation may refer to:
- Satiety, feeling "full" and satisfied after eating; the cessation of hunger. See also CholecystokininCholecystokininCholecystokinin is a peptide hormone of the gastrointestinal system responsible for stimulating the digestion of fat and protein...
-mediated satiety. - Economic satiationEconomic satiationThe economic principle of satiation is the effect whereby the more of a good one possesses the less one is willing to give up in order to get more of it. This effect is caused by diminishing marginal utility, the effect whereby the consumer gains less utility per unit of a product the more units of...
, where increasing the amount of a good reduces the worth of each individual unit of it - Predator satiationPredator satiationPredator satiation is an antipredator adaptation in which prey occur at high population densities, reducing the probability of an individual organism being eaten....
, 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