Meaning of DRUNKENNESS
| Pronunciation: | | dr'ungkunnus
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- [n] the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall"
- [n] a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol
- [n] 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
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| | Synonyms: | | alcohol addiction, alcoholism, boozing, crapulence, drink, drinking, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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| | Antonyms: | | soberness, sobriety | | |
| | See Also: | | drinking bout, drug addiction, grogginess, intemperance, intemperateness, sottishness, temporary state, white plague | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate
drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their
company. --I. Watts.
2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by
liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.
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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| | Related Terms: | | a high, alcoholism, befuddlement, besottedness, bibulousness, compotation, crapulence, crapulency, crapulousness, dipsomania, dizziness, drinking, Dutch courage, 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, potation, pot-valiance, pot-valor, 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 |
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