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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.
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              The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate
              drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their
              company.                              --I. Watts.
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     2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by
        liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.
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              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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