Antonyms for drunkennessdrunk·en·ness

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1. drunkennessnoun

   Synonyms:
   inebriation

2. drunkennessnoun

   A state of being drunk

   Synonyms:
   inebriation

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drunkenness

   Antonyms:
   abstemiousness, abstinence, continence, fasting, frugality, moderation, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, sobriety, temperance

   Synonyms:
   excess, gluttony, greed, intemperance, intoxication, reveling, revelry, self-indulgence, sensuality, wantonness

Matched Categories

1. • Drug Addiction
   • Intemperance

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1. drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness, insobrietynoun

   a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol

   Antonyms:
   soberness, sobriety

   Synonyms:
   drinking, inebriety, alcohol addiction, inebriation, poisoning, intoxication, drink, insobriety, alcoholism, tipsiness, boozing, crapulence, toxic condition

2. alcoholism, alcohol addiction, inebriation, drunkennessnoun

   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

   Antonyms:
   soberness, sobriety

   Synonyms:
   drinking, inebriety, alcohol addiction, dipsomania, inebriation, potomania, intoxication, drink, insobriety, alcoholism, boozing, crapulence, tipsiness

3. drink, drinking, boozing, drunkenness, crapulencenoun

   the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess

   "drink was his downfall"

   Antonyms:
   soberness, sobriety

   Synonyms:
   alcohol addiction, inebriation, swallow, tipsiness, potable, imbibing, intoxication, crapulence, insobriety, alcoholism, drinkable, drink, imbibition, drinking, inebriety, deglutition, beverage, boozing

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1. drunkennessnoun

   Antonyms:
   sobriety, temperance, abstinence

   Synonyms:
   intoxication, inebriety, inebriation, ebriety, ebriosity, debauch, excitement, frenzy, inflammation

How to use drunkenness in a sentence?

1. Bradley Boekeloo:

   The study does suggest that parent involvement in their kids ’ free time through monitoring of unstructured activity is very important to preventing youth drunkenness and smoking.

2. Bertrand Russell:

   Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

3. William Shakespeare:

   I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.

4. William Penn:

   All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

5. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

   Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

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