inebriation

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

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

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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