saturation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sat=u=ra=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

saturation, n. [L. saturatio: cf. F. saturation.].

•  The act of saturating, or the state of being saturating; complete penetration or impregnation.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act, process, or result of saturating a substance, or of combining it to its fullest extent.  [1913 Webster]
•  Freedom from mixture or dilution with white; purity; -- said of colors.  [1913 Webster]

  " The degree of saturation of a color is its relative purity, or freedom from admixture with white."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

saturation, n. the act or an instance of saturating; the state of being saturated.

Idiom

saturation point the stage beyond which no more can be absorbed or accepted.

THESAURUS

saturation

Munsell chroma, Technicolor, amplitude, bellyful, brewing, bright color, brightness, brilliance, chroma, chromatic color, chromaticity, color, color quality, colorfulness, colorimetric quality, congestion, cool color, decoction, drench, drenching, ducking, dunking, engorgement, fill, flood tide, full, fullness, gaiety, glut, gorgeousness, high tide, high water, hue, hyperemia, imbruement, imbuement, impletion, impregnation, infiltration, infusion, injection, instillation, instillment, intensity, interpenetration, leaching, lightness, lixiviation, maceration, marination, more than enough, neutral color, overbrimming, overburden, overcharge, overflow, overfreight, overfullness, overload, overspill, overweight, penetration, percolation, permeation, pervasion, plenitude, plethora, pulping, pure color, purity, repletion, richness, satiation, satiety, satisfaction, saturatedness, saturation point, seething, skinful, snootful, soak, soakage, soaking, sopping, souse, sousing, spring tide, steeping, suffusion, supersaturation, surcharge, surfeit, tint, tone, value, vividness, warm color

ROGET THESAURUS

saturation

Redundancy

N redundancy, redundance, too much, too many, superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation, nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness, profusion, repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share, more than enough, plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener, turgescence, overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow, inundation, avalanche, accumulation, heap, drug, drug in the market, glut, crowd, burden, excess, surplus, overplus, epact, margin, remainder, duplicate, surplusage, expletive, work of supererogation, bonus, bonanza, luxury, intemperance, extravagance, exorbitance, lavishment, pleonasm, too many irons in the fire, embarras de richesses, redundant, too much, too many, exuberant, inordinate, superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish, prodigal, exorbitant, overweening, extravagant, overcharged, supersaturated, drenched, overflowing, running over, running to waste, running down, crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing, gorged, ready to burst, dropsical, turgid, plethoric, obese, superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous, uncalled for, to spare, in excess, over and above, de trop, adscititious, supernumerary, on one's hands, spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive, un peu fort, over, too, over and above, overmuch, too much, too far, without measure, beyond measure, out of measure, with a to spare, over head and ears, up to one's eyes, up to one's ears, extra, beyond the mark, acervatim, it never rains but it pours, fortuna multis dat nimium nulli satis, Degree of Subservience.

Completeness

N completeness, completion, integration, allness, entirety, perfection, solidity, solidarity, unity, all, ne plus ultra, ideal, limit, complement, supplement, make-weight, filling, up, impletion, saturation, saturity, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, fill, load, bumper, bellyful, brimmer, sufficiency, complete, entire, whole, perfect, full, good, absolute, thorough, plenary, solid, undivided, with all its parts, all- sided, exhaustive, radical, sweeping, thorough-going, dead, regular, consummate, unmitigated, sheer, unqualified, unconditional, free, abundant, brimming, brimful, topful, topfull, chock full, choke full, as full as an egg is of meat, as full as a vetch, saturated, crammed, replete, fraught, laden, full-laden, full-fraught, full-charged, heavy laden, completing, supplemental, supplementary, ascititious, completely, altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in toto, quite, all out, over head and ears, effectually, for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders, neck and heel, neck and crop, in all respects, in every respect, at all points, out and out, to all intents and purposes, toto coelo, utterly, clean, clean as a whistle, to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone, hollow, stark, heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground, to the top of one's bent, as far as possible, a outrance, throughout, from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from Dan to Beersheba, from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble, a fond, a capite ad calcem, ab ovo usque ad mala, fore and aft, every, whit, every inch, cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter, up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes, as a as can be, on all accounts, sous tous les rapports, with a vengeance, with a witness, falsus in uno falsus in omnibus, false in one thing, false in everything, omnem movere lapidem, una scopa nuova spazza bene.

Satiety

N satiety, satisfaction, saturation, repletion, glut, surfeit, cloyment, satiation, weariness, spoiled child, enfant gete, enfant terrible, too much of a good thing, toujours perdrix, crambe repetita, satiated, overgorged, blase, used up, sick of, heartsick, Int, enough!, hold!, eheu jam satis!, basta!.