About The Word Drunkenness
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Drunkenness
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What's The Definition Of Drunkenness?
[n] the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall"
[n] a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol [n] Habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms Synonyms | Synonyms for Drunkenness: alcohol addiction | alcoholism | boozing | crapulence | drink | drinking | inebriation | inebriety | intoxication | tipsiness Related Terms | Find terms related to Drunkenness: a high | alcoholism | befuddlement | besottedness | bibulousness | compotation | crapulence | crapulency | crapulousness | dipsomania | dizziness | drinking | Dutch courage | ebriosity | excess | excessiveness | extravagance | fuddle | fuddledness | fuddlement | giddiness | gluttony | gulping | guzzling | hangover | imbibing | imbibition | immoderacy | immoderateness | immoderation | incontinence | indiscipline | indulgence | inebriation | inebriety | inordinacy | inordinateness | insobriety | intemperance | intemperateness | intoxication | katzenjammer | lapping | lightheadedness | morning after | nipping | overdoing | overindulgence | potation | pot-valiance | pot-valor | prodigality | pulling | quaffing | self-indulgence | slipping | sottedness | sottishness | spinning head | swigging | swilling | swimming | swinishness | symposium | tasting | tipsiness | too much | too-muchness | unconstraint | uncontrol | unrestraint | vertiginousness | vertigo | wooziness See Also | drinking bout | drug addiction | grogginess | intemperance | intemperateness | sottishness | temporary state | white plague Drunkenness In Webster's Dictionary \Drunk"en*ness\, n.
1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic
liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual
state or the habit.
The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate
drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their
company. --I. Watts.
2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by
liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. -- South.
Syn: Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety. -- {Drunkenness},
{Intoxication}, {Inebriation}. Drunkenness refers more
to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific
acts. The first two words are extensively used in a
figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success,
and is drunk with joy. ``This plan of empire was not
taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected
success.'' --Burke.
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