'Drunkenness' definitions:
Definition of 'drunkenness'
(from WordNet)
noun
A temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol [syn: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness, insobriety] [ant: soberness, sobriety]
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 [syn: alcoholism, alcohol addiction, inebriation, drunkenness]
noun
The act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall" [syn: drink, drinking, boozing, drunkenness, crapulence]
Definition of 'Drunkenness'
From: GCIDE
- Drunkenness \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. [1913 Webster]
- The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage. [1913 Webster]
- 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. Drunkenship
Synonyms of 'drunkenness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- pot-valiance,
- pot-valor,
- potation,
- 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