Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Drunkenness"
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) 1.7 (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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