ebrietyn.
/ɪˈbrʌɪɪti/ 1. The state or habit of being intoxicated, drunkenness. †Also plural instances of intoxication.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drunkenness
drunkennessc893
drunkenc950
drunknessc1160
drunkenheada1300
drunkhead1340
drunkelewnessa1387
winedrunkennessa1387
drunkship1393
drunkelewc1430
vinolence1430
yverescec1430
drunkenshipc1440
drunkelecc1450
barley-hooda1529
ebriety1582
alecy1594
distemper1600
insobriety1611
disguisea1616
perpotation1623
temulency1623
vinolency1623
intoxication1624
pot-shot1630
ebriosity1646
inebriation1646
Bacchation1656
fluster1710
temulentness1727
fuddle1764
inebriety1801
temulence1803
Lushington1823
fluffiness1860
booziness1863
jag1891
brannigan1892
befuddlement1905
mokus1924
muzzy-headedness1930
pixilation1936
1582 Bible (Rheims) Gal. v. 21 The workes of the flesh..are, fornication..ebrieties, commessations, and such like.
1614 T. Adams Diuells Banket ii. 42 The satietie of Epicurisme, the gallantnesse of Ebrietie.
1670 E. Maynwaring Vita Sana & Longa (new ed.) vi. 73 Ebriety may properly be said to be a Disease or sickness.
1758 Monthly Rev. 19 185 Some under the most extreme exigencies of poverty, will indulge in ebriety.
1785 W. F. Martyn Geogr. Mag. 2 144 His father's unconquerable ebriety.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany xvi. 273 Our guide to the garrulity of age added that of partial ebriety.
2. figurative. Excitement, an excited condition.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > extravagant or rapturous excitement > [noun]
woodnessc1000
excess1423
inebriation1526
madness1595
deliration1603
raptery1640
mania1689
intoxication1712
ebriety1751
delirium1757
nympholepsy1776
inebriety1786
orgiasm1840
raptus1845
ebriosity1854
slap-happiness1958
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 167. ⁋6 The ebriety of constant amusement.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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