Definition of Drunkenness

Drunkenness

The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.

Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.

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Drunkenness Quotations

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Bertrand Russell

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.
P. J. O'Rourke

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
Marguerite Duras

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
Bishop Robert South

The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be.
Thomas Jordan Jarvis

Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.
Giraldus Cambrensis

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.
Frederic William Farrar

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Seneca

There is a ceaseless war against drunkenness and cruelty and vice.
Anthony Blunt

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Drunkenness Translations

drunkenness in Dutch is roes
drunkenness in German is Trunkenheit, Betrunkenheit
drunkenness in Italian is ebbrezza
drunkenness in Latin is crapula
drunkenness in Spanish is beodez, embriaguez

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