drunkenness   (TTS Sound)

The noun drunkenness has 3 senses

• drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness, insobriety -- (a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol)


• alcoholism, alcohol addiction, inebriation, drunkenness -- (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)


• drink, drinking, boozing, drunkenness, crapulence -- (the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall")