drunkenness : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: drunkenness	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for drunkenness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drunkenness n a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol Synonym(s): drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness, insobriety Antonym(s): soberness, sobriety 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 Synonym(s): alcoholism, alcohol addiction, inebriation, drunkenness the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall" Synonym(s): drink, drinking, boozing, drunkenness, crapulence
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drunkenness \Drunk"enness\, 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. [bd]This plan of empire was not taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected success.[b8] --Burke.