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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sobriety \So*bri"e*ty\, n. [L. sobrietas: cf F. sobri['e]t['e].
See {Sober}.]
1. Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of
spirituous liquors; as a man of sobriety.
Public sobriety is a relative duty. --Blackstone.
2. Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or
overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity;
seriousness; as the sobriety of riper years.
Mirth makes them not mad, Nor sobriety sad.
--Denham.
Syn: Soberness; temperance; abstinence; abstemiousness;
moderation; regularity; steadness; calmness; coolness;
sober-mindeness; sedateness; staidness; gravity;
seriousness; solemnity.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sobriety
n 1: the state of being sober [syn: {soberness}] [ant: {drunkenness}]
2: moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or drugs
3: a manner that is serious and solemn [syn: {graveness}, {gravity},
{soberness}, {somberness}]
4: abstaining from excess [syn: {temperance}]
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