noun
- The condition of being intoxicated with alcoholic liquor: crapulence, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness. See drugs/temperance.
drunkenness
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The noun has 3 meanings:
Meaning #1:
a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol
Synonyms: inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness
Antonym: soberness (meaning #1)
Meaning #2:
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: alcoholism, alcohol addiction, inebriation
Meaning #3:
the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
Synonyms: drink, drinking, boozing, crapulence
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- intoxicatedness
- acute alcoholism (medicine)
- ebriety
- temulence
- drunkenness
- cordax
- Huitaca (American mythology)
- Drunk (dream symbols)
- intoxication
- bacchanalian
