satiation

There was speculation—was he being held prisoner, was he dying—but I prefer to imagine he had simply relaxed into existence, a state of satiation.

And they are painstakingly developed to hit our pleasure and desire centers, to avoid our satiation points, to make us want more—to paraphrase Michael Moss, who has written two books on Big Food, to make us eat impulsively and compulsively.

But while appetite and satiation — feeling full and not wanting to eat again — aren't perfectly aligned with being able to lose weight, it might be a helpful starting point.

That satiation itself could blunt food noise, he said.

Maybe this is why Mother Teresa was canonized — not for a chaste space of absence but for the places of satiation she created where famished people gather around pizza ovens, crib assembly instructions and ragged nipples.