drunkenness

1 habitual or excessive drinking of intoxicants unfortunately most of his time in college had been devoted to drunkenness and debauchery Synonyms alcoholism, intemperance, insobriety, intemperatenessRelated Words inebriety, intoxication; bibulousness, dipsomania; debauchery, dissolutenessNear Antonyms abstention, abstinence, teetotalismAntonyms sobriety, temperance

2 the condition of being drunk officials warning that public drunkenness would not be tolerated, even during Mardi Gras Synonyms intoxication, inebriation, inebrietyRelated Words tipsiness; insobriety, intemperance; alcoholism; bender, binge, brannigan, jag, souse, spree, toot