About The Word Drunkenness

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Drunkenness

Drunkenness Meaning & Definition
Drunkenness Definition And Meaning

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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