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noun

Drunkenness n.

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."

Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage. "Passion is the drunkenness of the mind."

Synonyms: 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."

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Etymology of 'Drunkenness'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Drunkenness" Quotes from Famous Books

... was fifty-four. And when I saw him a week ago, he looked like sixty-four. His eyes were as yellow as the slime of a garden snail and bloodshot from drunkenness; but also because he'd shed tears of blood over his vices and misery. His face was brown and swollen like a piece of liver on a butcher's table, and he hid himself from men's eyes out of shame—up to the end he seems to have been ashamed of the broken mirror ...

— The Road to Damascus - A Trilogy • August Strindberg

... the election of such a person to the highest position in the State prove even a greater misfortune to the land than the continuance of the present regime, for this young man adds to his father's vice of drunkenness the evil qualities, of dishonesty, cruelty, ribaldry, and a lack of respect for the privileges both of ...

— The Sword Maker • Robert Barr

... of the wall of life, was meant to stand in the shadow. He saw the men and women in the houses of lust, sensed their casual and horrible love affairs, saw boys fighting and listened to their tales of thieving and drunkenness, unmoved and strangely unaffected. ...

— Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson

... Parliament sat for the King's life, the ordinary charge for a seat was L1500; but now, when it sat for eight years, four sessions, the charge was L2500 and upward." Such a change as was proposed would cause "triennial corruption, triennial drunkenness, triennial idleness, etc., and invigorate personal hatreds that would never be allowed to soften. It would even make the member himself more corrupt, by increasing his dependence on those who could best support him at elections. It would ...

— The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860 • Charles Duke Yonge

... would have been content, gay at times. Soon she learned that laughter does not always mean mirth; that the ignorant do not lack the power to suffer simply because they lack the power to appreciate; that the diseases, the bent bodies, the harrowed faces, the drunkenness, quarreling, fighting, were safer guides to the real conditions of these people than their occasional guffaws ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

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