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DRUNKENNESS
drink, drinking, boozing, drunkenness, crapulence
(noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; “drink was his downfall”
drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness, insobriety
(noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol
alcoholism, alcohol addiction, inebriation, drunkenness
(noun) 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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
drunkenness (usually uncountable, plural drunkennesses)
A state of being drunk.
Synonyms
• See also drunkenness
Antonyms
• soberness; see also drunkenness
Source: Wiktionary
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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