insobriety

1 a propensity for extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits a short, unhappy life characterized chiefly by insobriety Synonyms excessiveness, exorbitance, immoderacy, immoderation, excess, intemperance, intemperateness, nimietyRelated Words extravagance, prodigality; extremism, irrationality, radicalism, unreasonablenessAntonyms moderateness, moderation, temperance, temperateness

2 habitual or excessive drinking of intoxicants her once-promising singing career was undermined by insobriety and emotional instability Synonyms alcoholism, drunkenness, intemperance, intemperatenessRelated Words inebriety, intoxication; bibulousness, dipsomania; debauchery, dissolutenessNear Antonyms abstention, abstinence, teetotalismAntonyms sobriety, temperance