Definition of sobriety
:the quality or state of being sober
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They did a sobriety test on him.
the sobriety of the situation
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Adair added construction work to his résumé, but sobriety proved elusive.
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Police say Aguilar later failed field sobriety tests.
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At the scene, police administered sobriety tests and Lerma fell twice.
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There are those in his camp who believe the district attorney might decline to pursue the case because his blood alcohol level was .08, the minimum for arrest, as well as questions concerning police conduct with the stop and the field sobriety test.
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And France is not the only wine country practicing summer sobriety.
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Occasionally insanity, real or feigned, has its political advantages —largely because of its ancillary traits of unpredictability and an aura of immunity from appeals to reason, sobriety, and moderation.
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Some providers believe these drugs don’t constitute true recovery or sobriety.
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The driver, Sean Rehmann, 24, of Garnet Valley, was unable to stand when a responding officer tried to administer a sobriety test Tuesday, Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said.
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Origin and Etymology of sobriety
Middle English sobrete, from Anglo-French sobreté, from Latin sobrietat-, sobrietas, from sobrius
sobriety Synonyms
Synonyms
earnest, graveness, gravity, intentness, serious-mindedness, seriousness, soberness, earnestness, solemnity, solemnness, staidnessAntonyms
facetiousness, flightiness, flippancy, frivolity, frivolousness, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, play, unseriousnessRelated Words
gravitas, humorlessness; decisiveness, deliberation, determination, firmness, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolve; absorption, attentiveness, concentration, engrossment, enthrallment, immersion, intensityNear Antonyms
lightness, shallowness, superficiality; dalliance, dilettantism; cheerfulness, gaiety (also gayety), glee, high-spiritedness, merriment, mirthSOBRIETY Defined for English Language Learners
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