Definition

1. Noun:
   • The act of eating until excessively full: The condition of having consumed food to the point of complete and often uncomfortable satiety.
   • The state of being completely filled or supplied: A condition of being satisfactorily full, saturated, or supplied to capacity, often beyond a normal or desired limit.

Usage

• General Use: "Repletion" is a formal noun used to describe a state of extreme fullness, most commonly from eating but also applicable to other contexts of saturation.
• Context: It often carries a connotation of excess, implying that the point of comfortable fullness has been surpassed.

Examples

• After the seven-course feast, a feeling of repletion settled over the guests, leaving them unable to move.
• The repletion of the storage tanks meant no more water could be added.
• He ate to repletion at the buffet, a decision he later regretted.

Advanced Usage

• "To eat to repletion": A common collocation meaning to eat until one is completely and excessively full.
  • The holiday tradition was to eat to repletion, enjoying every dish on the table.
• Conceptual Repletion: Used metaphorically for non-physical states of being overly filled.
  • The market's repletion with similar products made it hard for new ones to stand out.

Variants and Related Words

• Replete (adjective): Completely filled or well-supplied with something.
  • The report was replete with detailed examples.
• Repletive (adjective, rare): Tending to fill or characterized by repletion.

Synonyms

• Satiety: The state of being satiated or gratified to the full, often used interchangeably with repletion but sometimes with less emphasis on excess.
• Surfeit: An excessive amount of something, often leading to disgust or illness.
• Fullness: The condition of being filled, a more general and less formal term.

Antonyms

• Depletion: The reduction in the number or quantity of something.
• Emptiness: The state of containing nothing.
• Hunger: A feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• "Filled to repletion": An idiom meaning completely and utterly full.
  • After the huge meal, I was filled to repletion.

Noun

1. eating until excessively full
2. the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more