repletion

See also: réplétion

English

Etymology

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

Noun

repletion (countable and uncountable, plural repletions)

1. The condition of being replete; fullness.

   Antonym: depletion

   Coordinate terms: completion; suppletion

   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 170:

     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. (medicine, archaic) Plethora of the blood.

Translations

the condition of being replete

• Bulgarian: насита (bg) f (nasita), пресищане (bg) n (presištane)
• French: réplétion (fr) f
• Irish: lánmhaireacht f
• Latin: plēnitās f, saturitas f
• Manx: saieys m, saieid m
• Russian: изоби́лие (ru) (izobílije), переполненность (ru) f (perepolnennostʹ)
• Swedish: överfyllnad

Anagrams

• interlope, interpole, let one rip, petroline, retpoline, terpineol

Old French

Alternative forms

• replecion
• repleciun

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin replētiō, replētiōnem.

Noun

repletion oblique singular, f (oblique plural repletions, nominative singular repletion, nominative plural repletions)

1. repletion (fullness)
2. (medicine) overabundance; excess
   • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 204 of this essay:

     il doit fuir grant replecion de viandes et de beuvrage

     he must avoid excess of meat and beverages