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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

insobriety, intemperance

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

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