Sobriety

3 definitions found

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

  Sobriety \So*bri"e*ty\, n. [L. sobrietas: cf. F. sobri['e]t['e].
     See {Sober}.]
     1. Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of
        spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety.
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              Public sobriety is a relative duty.   --Blackstone.
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     2. Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or
        overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity;
        seriousness; as, the sobriety of riper years.
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              Mirth makes them not mad,
              Nor sobriety sad.                     --Denham.
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     Syn: Soberness; temperance; abstinence; abstemiousness;
          moderation; regularity; steadness; calmness; coolness;
          sober-mindeness; sedateness; staidness; gravity;
          seriousness; solemnity.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sobriety
       n 1: the state of being sober [syn: {soberness}] [ant: {drunkenness}]
       2: moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or drugs
       3: a manner that is serious and solemn [syn: {graveness}, {gravity},
           {soberness}, {somberness}]
       4: abstaining from excess [syn: {temperance}]

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

  147 Moby Thesaurus words for "sobriety":
     abnegation, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, augustness,
     balance, blackishness, calm, calmness, common sense, conservatism,
     constraint, contact with reality, continence, control, cool,
     cool head, coolheadedness, coolness, courtliness, darkishness,
     darkness, darksomeness, decorousness, demureness, denial,
     dignifiedness, dignity, dispassion, due sense of, duskiness,
     duskness, earnestness, evenness, forbearance, formality, frugality,
     funereality, gentleness, golden mean, good sense, grandeur,
     graveness, gravity, grimness, happy medium, healthy mind,
     horse sense, impartiality, judiciousness, juste-milieu, kingliness,
     lenity, level head, levelheadedness, loftiness, long face,
     lordliness, lucid interval, lucidity, majesty, meden agan,
     mental balance, mental equilibrium, mental health, mental hygiene,
     mental poise, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation,
     moderationism, neutrality, nobility, nonviolence, normalcy,
     normality, normalness, nothing in excess, pacifism, plain sense,
     practical mind, practical wisdom, practicality, pride of bearing,
     pride of place, princeliness, proud bearing, prudence, rationality,
     reason, reasonableness, regality, renouncement, renunciation,
     repose, restraint, right mind, sadness, sanemindedness, saneness,
     sanity, sedateness, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial,
     self-discipline, self-mastery, self-restraint, sense, senses,
     sensibleness, serenity, seriousness, sober senses,
     sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, solemnity,
     solemnness, somberness, sophrosyne, sound mind, soundness,
     soundness of mind, stability, staidness, stateliness, steadiness,
     straight face, swarth, swarthiness, swartness, teetotalism,
     temperance, temperateness, thoughtfulness, tranquillity,
     unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, venerability,
     via media, weightiness, wholesomeness, worthiness