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n.

The quality or state of being sober.

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    The practice of refraining from use of alcoholic liquors: abstinence, dryness, sobriety, teetotalism, temperance. See drugs/temperance, restraint/unrestraint, used/unused.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: the state of being sober
  Synonym: sobriety
  Antonym: drunkenness (meaning #1)

Meaning #2: a manner that is serious and solemn
  Synonyms: graveness, gravity, sobriety, somberness

 
 
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