[syn: drink, drinking, boozing, drunkenness, crapulence]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate
drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their
company. --I. Watts.
[1913 Webster]
2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by
liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.
[1913 Webster]
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. Drunkenship
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
drunkenness
n 1: a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of
alcohol [syn: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety,
intoxication, tipsiness, insobriety] [ant:
soberness, sobriety]
2: 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 [syn: alcoholism, alcohol
addiction, inebriation, drunkenness]
3: the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was
his downfall" [syn: drink, drinking, boozing,
drunkenness, crapulence]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "drunkenness":
Dutch courage, a high, alcoholism, befuddlement, besottedness,
bibulousness, compotation, crapulence, crapulency, crapulousness,
dipsomania, dizziness, drinking, ebriosity, excess, excessiveness,
extravagance, fuddle, fuddledness, fuddlement, giddiness, gluttony,
gulping, guzzling, hangover, imbibing, imbibition, immoderacy,
immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, indiscipline,
indulgence, inebriation, inebriety, inordinacy, inordinateness,
insobriety, intemperance, intemperateness, intoxication,
katzenjammer, lapping, lightheadedness, morning after, nipping,
overdoing, overindulgence, pot-valiance, pot-valor, potation,
prodigality, pulling, quaffing, self-indulgence, slipping,
sottedness, sottishness, spinning head, swigging, swilling,
swimming, swinishness, symposium, tasting, tipsiness, too much,
too-muchness, unconstraint, uncontrol, unrestraint,
vertiginousness, vertigo, wooziness