satiety
noun
In Jewish tradition
In Ecclesiastes it means the full stomach and heavy surplus of the rich, which keep them from sleeping.
Interpretation. Tradition reads it as a lesson that wealth brings worry rather than rest, while simple work brings peaceful sleep.
Meaning
The feeling of being completely full, or having more than enough of something. tree →
Examples
- Sweet is the sleep of a labouring man, whether he eat little or much; but the satiety of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. (Writings ECC.5.11, JPS 1917) tree →
Note
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On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «satiety» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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