insobriety
/ɪnsəˈbrʌɪəti
/noun [mass noun]
Drunkenness: the defendant was in a state of insobriety...
- For him, ‘the Methodist conscience of Britain has been replaced by greed, insobriety and the worship of wealth’.
- His worldview seems to neglect that millions of people enjoy alcohol for purposes other than achieving insobriety.
- The ‘fact’ of European insobriety has been cited last year in letters to The Journal of the American Medical Association and The Washington Post.
Synonyms
drunkenness, intoxication, inebriation, tipsiness;
intemperance, overindulgence, overconsumption, debauchery;
hard drinking, serious drinking, heavy drinking, alcoholism, alcohol abuse, dipsomania
rare inebriety, sottishness, bibulousness, crapulence
- plumiform
- pluminess
- plumist
- plumless
- plummer block
- Plummer–Vinson syndrome
- plummet
- plummetless
- plummet level
- plummet-like
- plummet line
- plummily
- plumminess
- carbonometer
- carbonous
- carbon paper
- carbon pencil
- carbon print
- carbon printing
- carbon process
- carbon sequestration
- carbon sink
- carbon skeleton
- carbon star
- carbon steel