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Found 2 items, similar to Drunkenness.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: drunkenness
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Drunkenness
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.
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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.
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