Inebriation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inebriation \In*e`bri*a"tion\, n. [L. inebriatio.]
     The condition of being inebriated; intoxication;
     figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything
     that exhilarates, as success. --Sir T. Browne.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Preserve him from the inebriation of prosperity.
                                                    --Macaulay.
  
     Syn: See {Drunkenness}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inebriation
       n 1: 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}, {drunkenness}]
       2: a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of
          alcohol [syn: {drunkenness}, {inebriety}, {intoxication},
          {tipsiness}] [ant: {soberness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "inebriation":
     Dutch courage, a high, befuddlement, besottedness, drunkenness,
     fuddle, fuddledness, fuddlement, hangover, inebriety, insobriety,
     intoxication, katzenjammer, morning after, pot-valiance, pot-valor,
     sottedness, tipsiness