3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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 From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: drunkenness n 1: a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol [syn: {inebriation}, {inebriety}, {intoxication}, {tipsiness}] [ant: {soberness}] 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 [syn: {alcoholism}, {alcohol addiction}, {inebriation}] 3: the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall" [syn: {drink}, {drinking}, {boozing}, {crapulence}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 74 Moby Thesaurus words for "drunkenness": Dutch courage, a high, alcoholism, befuddlement, besottedness, bibulousness, compotation, crapulence, crapulency, crapulousness, dipsomania, dizziness, drinking, 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
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