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1. A temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol
   - inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness, insobriety
    
2. Habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms
   - alcoholism, alcohol addiction, inebriation
    
3. The act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
   "drunkenness was his downfall"
   - drink, drinking, boozing, crapulence

Derived forms: drunkennesses

See also: drunken

Type of: drug addiction, intemperance, intemperateness, temporary state, white plague

Antonym: soberness

Encyclopedia: Drunkenness