drunkenness

Noun

Meaning

The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.

Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.

Source: Webster's dictionary

intoxication inebriation inebriety drinking drink alcoholism insobriety alcohol addiction crapulence boozing tipsiness bender jag substance abuse vice

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soberness temperance extent gravity consideration discretion

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intemperance drug addiction intemperateness white plague temporary state

grogginess sottishness drinking bout

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It is not wine that is evil, but drunkenness. John Chrysostom

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. Seneca

Drunkenness is temporary suicide. Bertrand Russell

There's no harm in wine, it's drunkenness that is at fault. Russian Proverb

Drunkenness does not produce faults; it discovers them. Chinese Proverb

There is no coat big enough to hide both poverty and drunkenness. Hungarian Proverb

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