drunkenness

1. n. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. Source: opted

2. n. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage. Source: opted

3. n. a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol Source: wordnet

4. 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 Source: wordnet

5. n. the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess Source: wordnet

6. 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. Source: webster

7. The state of being drunk; drunkenness. [Obs.] Gower. Source: adambom

8. n:100 n. a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol Source: ecdict

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