drunkenness

drunkenness
    n 1: a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of
         alcohol [syn: {drunkenness}, {inebriation}, {inebriety},
         {intoxication}, {tipsiness}, {insobriety}] [ant:
         {soberness}, {sobriety}]
    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}, {drunkenness}]
    3: the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was
       his downfall" [syn: {drink}, {drinking}, {boozing},
       {drunkenness}, {crapulence}]
    

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
    

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