Semantic Satiation Is Not Semantic Exhaustion is a terminological paper by Lee Sharks.
Semantic satiation is a temporary psycholinguistic effect caused by repeating a word until subjective meaning weakens. Semantic exhaustion is defined in the paper as collective depletion of a system’s capacity to produce and reproduce meaning.
The terms differ in scale, duration, mechanism, and remedy. The paper establishes the archive’s proposed use of “semantic exhaustion,” not an established scientific consensus around that framework.