intoxication

intoxication
    n 1: the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic
         substance [syn: {poisoning}, {toxic condition},
         {intoxication}]
    2: a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of
       alcohol [syn: {drunkenness}, {inebriation}, {inebriety},
       {intoxication}, {tipsiness}, {insobriety}] [ant: {soberness},
       {sobriety}]
    3: excitement and elation beyond the bounds of sobriety; "the
       intoxication of wealth and power"
    

Intoxication \In*tox`i*ca"tion\, n.
   1. (Med.) A poisoning, as by a alcoholic or a narcotic
      substance.
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   2. The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation;
      ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making
      drunk.
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   2. A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to
      enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness.
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            That secret intoxication of pleasure. --Spectator.

   Syn: Drunkenness; inebriation; inebriety; ebriety;
        infatuation; delirium. See {Drunkenness}.
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67 Moby Thesaurus words for "intoxication":
      abandon, autointoxication, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment,
      blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, blood poisoning, cheer,
      cheerfulness, cloud nine, craze, delectation, delight, delirium,
      ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, ergotism, exaltation,
      exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, fire and fury, food poisoning,
      frenzy, furor, furore, fury, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness,
      heaven, high spirits, hysteria, joy, joyance, joyfulness, madness,
      milk sickness, orgasm, orgy, overhappiness, overjoyfulness,
      paradise, passion, poisoning, ptomaine poisoning, pyemia, rage,
      rapture, ravishment, sepsis, septic poisoning, septicemia,
      septicopyemia, seventh heaven, sunshine, tearing passion,
      towering rage, toxemia, transport, unalloyed happiness,
      venenation