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drunkenness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of drunkenness

1 habitual or excessive drinking of intoxicants

  • unfortunately most of his time in college had been devoted to drunkenness and debauchery
Synonyms of drunkenness

alcoholism, insobriety, intemperance, intemperateness
Words Related to drunkenness

inebriety, intoxication

bibulousness, dipsomania

debauchery, dissoluteness
Near Antonyms of drunkenness

abstention, abstinence, teetotalism
Antonyms of drunkenness

sobriety, temperance

2 the condition of being drunk

  • officials warning that public drunkenness would not be tolerated, even during Mardi Gras
Synonyms of drunkenness

inebriation, inebriety, intoxication
Words Related to drunkenness

tipsiness

insobriety, intemperance

alcoholism

bender, binge, brannigan, jag, souse, spree, toot

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