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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Drunkenness \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: drunkenness n 1: a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol [syn: {inebriation}, {inebriety}, {intoxication}, {tipsiness}] [ant: {soberness}] 2: 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 [syn: {alcoholism}, {alcohol addiction}] 3: the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall" [syn: {drink}, {drinking}, {boozing}, {crapulence}]
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