Repletion

noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of being replete; fullness. countable, uncountable

    "Fiddle de dee, the whole thing is neither more nor less than a substitute for the masquerade, which luckily became so gross, it died of repletion."

  2. 2
    eating until excessively full wordnet
  3. 3
    Plethora of the blood. archaic, countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more wordnet

Synonyms

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abundanceaffluenceample sufficiencyamplenessamplitudeavalanche

Example

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"As the mightiest in the kingdom, the king was also the lardiest. And so it was for the repletion and expansion of his truly majestic corpulence that dishes were prepared and served round the clock. His stomach, it was said, swelled into the infinite depths of space."

Etymology

From Middle English replecioun, from Old French repletion, from Latin replētiō, replētiōnem.

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