Ebriety
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɪˈbɹaɪ.ɪt.i/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ebriety is a noun meaning (uncountable) The state of intoxication, drunkenness.
Meaning
(uncountable) The state of intoxication, drunkenness.
More Meanings
- (countable, obsolete) An instance of being drunk.
Example Sentences
God's touches, the wounds of his spear, references to ebriety and to nuptial union have to figure in the phraseology by which [a mystical state] is shadowed forth.
It had been as the murmurous consecration to follow the murmurous welcome; and even if it were but part of Aunt Maud's own spiritual ebriety—for the dear woman, one could see, was spiritually "keeping" the day—it served to Milly, then and afterwards, as a high-water mark of the imagination.
Word Forms
- ebrieties
Antonyms for ebriety
Common opposites include sobriety.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ebriosity, inebriation, inebriety, drunkenness, inebriacy, intoxicatedness.
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