What's the difference between overindulgence and surfeit?

Overindulgence


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unlike past clinical reports, parents here scored high in acceptance and low in overprotection and overindulgence.
  • (2) Yesterday many of us overindulged in chocolate, but Easter is not the only time we munch our way through mounds of cocoa-based treats.
  • (3) They have also let overindulgent hunters and fishermen use the land, who overtax the resources the natives depend on, Kechimov said.
  • (4) Parenting practices that may encourage tantrums include inconsistency, unreasonable expectations, excessive strictness, overprotectiveness and overindulgence.
  • (5) As the British public overindulged during the Christmas period, two Israeli ophthalmologists published a review showing that people who are clinically obese have an increased chance of eye disease.
  • (6) The parent-child interaction patterns were characterized as rejecting and both overprotective and overindulgent.
  • (7) Countertransference phenomena include being secretive, intrusive, shaming, overcontrolling, overindulgent, or overidentified.
  • (8) We have already agreed that blame game is widely spread encompassing Greenspan, gullible international governments, inadequate regulation resulting in overindulgence by the consumer and business in terms of over-borrowing," Buik said.
  • (9) The present study demonstrated that a history of ethanol overindulgence yielded elevated probe intakes for chlordiazepoxide, while a history of cocaine or water overindulgence did not.
  • (10) Or just assuage your guilt about overindulging on bad food, or not eating enough greens?
  • (11) An easy (and often overplayed) explanation is that the Irish, for so long a devoutly Catholic people, feel guilty for their overindulgence during the good years, when the Celtic tiger was roaring and they all borrowed and spent too much.
  • (12) Perhaps Shawcross's models liked to overindulge in Conor's best known dish, its Ulster Fry, and who could blame them?
  • (13) The conditions which induce the ethanol overindulgence can generate a variety of behavioral excesses which places alcoholism in a context of environmentally determined malfunctions that are subject to therapeutic change by altering situational parameters.
  • (14) Damage of the knee joint has increased during the last few years owing to overindulgence in sports.
  • (15) The man responsible for this dramatic and deeply unsettling change in Britain’s constitution was a fat, childish and overindulged English monarch called Henry VIII, who became obsessed by something we might call “control”.
  • (16) The overindulgence is elective in that ethanol is chosen in preference to certain other fluid-ingestive alternatives.
  • (17) Unfortunately, the problem often turns out to be more serious than the transient pangs emanating from overindulgence.
  • (18) Rejection, overprotectiveness and overindulgence are often found as educational attitudes in parents of handicapped children.
  • (19) In our patients the chronic overindulgence in alcohol led to an increased appearance of a pathological gastrooesophageal reflux.
  • (20) Hence, they were less vulnerable to a continuance of their ethanol overindulgence than the group with the remote history of having chosen 5% ethanol over the dilute glucose solution.

Surfeit


Definition:

  • (n.) Excess in eating and drinking.
  • (n.) Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
  • (n.) Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
  • (v. i.) To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
  • (v. i.) To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
  • (v. t.) To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.
  • (v. t.) To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm reminded of something Cooper said earlier, when talking about the pressures of this time of year for working parents, with its surfeit of plays and, "Oh God, not another school fair".
  • (2) This very tight clustering suggests a cis interaction between adjacent Surfeit genes.
  • (3) The clustered arrangement (no two adjacent genes are separated by more than 73 base pairs [bp] and two genes overlap by 133 bp at their 3' ends) of the four genes (Surf-1 to -4) identified so far in the mouse surfeit locus (T. Williams, J. Yon, C. Huxley, and M. Fried, Proc.
  • (4) The organization of the mouse surfeit locus is unusual in that it contains six housekeeping genes (Surf-1-Surf-6), which are unrelated by sequence homology, in the tightest mammalian gene cluster thus far described.
  • (5) When the faculty status of women and men academic anesthesiologists was examined a significant difference was found in rank distribution in age groups 40 to 44 (P less than 0.005) and 45 to 49 (P less than 0.001), where there was a deficit of professors and a surfeit of instructors among women.
  • (6) Here's Niall Mullen: "As a Liverpool fan who can barely buy his own groceries I am going to be outraged, outraged I tell you, if we fail to procure a player I've never heard of, who plays in a position in which we have a surfeit of players, for a club I've never seen play."
  • (7) We found no evidence of an initial surfeit of processing units, dendritic branches, or synapses.
  • (8) In this endocrine control, the renin axis provides the primary defence against sodium volume depletion and hypotension while atrial hormone plays an increasingly active counter-role for coping with situations that involve a sodium-volume surfeit or rising blood volume or blood pressure levels.
  • (9) Profound changes are occurring in the health care system, including a surfeit of physicians, cost containment, and competition.
  • (10) Using an interspecies backcross, we have mapped the HOX-5 and surfeit (surf) gene clusters within the proximal portion of mouse chromosome 2.
  • (11) In the adult, sodium surfeit is associated with an increase in urinary dopamine; the opposite occurs in the young.
  • (12) But we've had a surfeit of "behind the scenes" pictures of both coalition leaders; too many pictures of Cameron gurning at his new baby have led to this sort of material becoming a devalued currency.
  • (13) Responses to the energy surfeit led to intakes 104% and 116% of baseline, respectively.
  • (14) Since a repository would be expected to accumulate surplus material, one would predict that phosphorylase, which contains stoichio-metric amounts or pyridoxal phosphate, would increase in muscle of animals surfeited with the vitamin.
  • (15) What is called progress seems often to bring a surfeit of new experiences, facts, machines, noises, producing a feeling of helplessness, almost of despair.
  • (16) These data support the hypothesis that a surfeit of opioidergic ligand may potentiate drinking of alcoholic beverages.
  • (17) The concept of a basal level of body sodium (Strauss' state 'between surfeit and deficit') was studied by means of body sodium measurements in rats on different sodium intakes, in some cases after diuretic pretreatment.
  • (18) The invading fibers appear to encounter resistance at the basal lamina, but, once within the epithelium, at embryonic days 8-9, they form a surfeit of branches in columnar zones oriented radially toward the surface.
  • (19) Relative to their energy consumption on the medium-fat diet, the subjects spontaneously consumed an 11.3% deficit on the low-fat diet and a 15.4% surfeit on the high-fat diet (p less than 0.0001), resulting in significant changes in body weight (p less than 0.001).
  • (20) The mouse surfeit locus is unusual in that it contains a number of closely clustered genes (Surf-1, -2, and -4) that alternate in their direction of transcription (T. Williams, J. Yon, C. Huxley, and M. Fried, Proc.

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