01 n. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.
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The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.“The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company.” — I. Watts.
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Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.“Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.” — South.
Syn.
Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety. -- Drunkenness, Intoxication, Inebriation. Drunkenness refers more to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific acts. The first two words are extensively used in a figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success, and is drunk with joy. “This plan of empire was not taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected success.”