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insobriety

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of insobriety

1 a propensity for extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits

  • a short, unhappy life characterized chiefly by insobriety
Synonyms of insobriety

excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, immoderacy, immoderation, intemperance, intemperateness, nimiety
Words Related to insobriety

extravagance, prodigality

extremism, irrationality, radicalism, unreasonableness
Antonyms of insobriety

moderateness, moderation, temperance, temperateness

2 habitual or excessive drinking of intoxicants

  • her once-promising singing career was undermined by insobriety and emotional instability
Synonyms of insobriety

alcoholism, drunkenness, intemperance, intemperateness
Words Related to insobriety

inebriety, intoxication

bibulousness, dipsomania

debauchery, dissoluteness
Near Antonyms of insobriety

abstention, abstinence, teetotalism
Antonyms of insobriety

sobriety, temperance

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