Synonyms for drunkenness
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Alcohol intoxication
intoxication, alcohol intoxication, inebriety, tipsiness, insobriety
2. Drinking
drinking, boozing informal, drink, crapulence
3. Alcoholism
Other
seasoning, ebriosity formal, sottishness, fuddling, inebriacy dated rare
Definitions
- n. 1
A state of being drunk.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- buzz inebriacy inebriation inebriety insobriety
Forms
- Plural
- drunkennesses → intoxications, inebrieties, tipsinesses, insobrieties…
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Drunkenness refers more to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific acts. Defn: The state of being drunk; drunkenness. [Obs.] Gower.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Example sentences
- drink You'll soon come to enjoy the food and drink here.
- drinking Too much drinking may be hazardous to your health.
- alcoholism The costs resulting from alcoholism are enormous.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| drunkenness | steady | |
| tipsiness | rising | |
| drink | rising | |
| drinking | rising | |
| alcoholism | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- drink1
- 7 letters
- boozing2
- 8 letters
- drinking2, fuddling
- 9 letters
- seasoning3, inebriety, tipsiness, ebriosity, inebriacy
- 10 letters
- alcoholism5, insobriety, crapulence
- 11 letters
- sottishness
- 12 letters
- intoxication5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (boozing2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- ivresse
- Italiano
- ebbrezza
- Español
- ebriedad
- Deutsch
- Trunkenheit