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Definition: Drunkenness |
DrunkennessNoun1. A temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol. 2. 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. 3. The act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drunkenness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Literature | Drunkenness The seven degrees: (1) Ape drunk; (2) Lion drunk; (3) Swine drunk; (4) Sheep drunk; (5) Martin drunk; (6) Goat drunk; (7) Fox drunk. (Nash.) Drunkenness It is said that if children eat owl's eggs they will never be addicted to strong drinks. "Tous les oiseaux lui [i.e. to Bacchus]étaient agréable, excepté la chouette dont les oeufs avaient la vertu de rendre les enfans qui les mangeaient ennemis du vin." - Noel: Dictionnaire de la Fable, vol. i. p.206. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Many societies have cultural stereotypes associated with drunkenness - where the ability to drink vast quantities of alcohol is thought to be worthy of respect. Arguably, such an attitude can be regarded as pathological, leading as it often does to alcoholism.
Drunkness is generally felt to be a good thing by the drunk person, at least till it wears off and the associated hangover starts.
Alcohol is a potent drug and consequently it has a range of side effects, some pleasurable and some less so. The amount consumed and the circumstances under which the alcohol was taken can play a large part in determining the extent of drunkenness. Drinking after eating a large meal is much less likely to induce drunkenness compared to taking in large amounts on an empty stomach. This is because the presence of food in the stomach is able to slow the absorption of alcohol in to the bloodstream, diluting its effects over a longer period of time.
Cell membranes are highly permeable to alcohol, so once alcohol is in the bloodstream it can diffuse into nearly every tissue of the body. This can contribute to the correspondingly dramatic effect seen when large amounts are taken.
Alcohol has a biphasic relationship on the body - its effects transform over an evening of drinking, from initial feelings of relaxation and cheerfulness to blurred vision and problems with coordination. After excessive drinking unconsciousness can often occur, and in extreme cases (when the concentration of alcohol in the bloodstream is over about 500mg per 100ml) alcohol can even cause death. Death can also be caused by vomiting blocking the trachea and causing choking. An appropriate first aid response to an unconscious, drunken person is a manuver known as the recovery position.
Although alcohol is commonly thought of purely as a depressant, at low concentrations it can actually stimulate certain areas of the brain. Alcohol sensitises the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) system of the brain, making it more receptive to the neurotransmitter glutamate. Stimulated areas include the cortex, hippocampus and nucleus accumbens, which are responsible for thinking and pleasure seeking. Another one of alcohol's agreeable effects is the relaxative state it puts the body into. This could be caused by heightened alpha brain waves surging across the brain. Alpha waves are observed (with the aid of ECGs) when the body is relaxed. Heightened pulses are thought to correspond to higher levels of enjoyment.
A well-known side effect of alcohol is the loosening it has on inhibitions. Areas of the brain responsible for planning and motor learning are dulled. A related effect, caused by even low levels of alcohol, is the tendency for people to become more animated in speech and movement. This is due to increased metabolism in areas of the brain associated with movement, such as the nigrostriatal pathway. This causes reward systems in the brain to become more active, and combined with released inhibition can induce people to behave in an uncharacteristically loud and cheerful manner.
A large part of the behaviourial changes associated with drunkenness is learned. A scientific study found that people drinking in a social setting significally and dramatically altered their behaviour immediately after the first sip of alcohol, well before the chemical itself could have filtered through to the nervous system.
The effect alcohol has on the NMDA receptors, earlier responsible for pleasurable stimulation, turns from a blessing to a curse later in the evening if further alcohol is consumed. NMDA receptors start to become unresponsive, slowing thought in the areas of the brain they are responsible for. Contributing to this effect is the activity which alcohol induces in the gamma-aminobutyric acid system (GABA). The GABA systen is known to inhibit activity in the brain, and would cause other areas to slow down. GABA could also be responsible for the memory impairment that many people experience. It has been asserted that GABA signals interfere with the registration and consolidation stages of memory formation. As the GABA system is found in the hippocampus, which is thought to play a large role in memory formation, this is thought to be possible.
Blurred vision is another common symptom of drunkenness. Alcohol seems to suppress the metabolism of glucose in the brain. The occipital lobe, the part of the brain responsible for interpreting vision, has been found to become especially impaired, consuming 29 per cent less glucose than it should. With less glucose metabolism, the cells work less efficiently and aren't able to process what we see properly. Severe drunkenness and diabetic coma can be mistaken for each other, with potentially serious medical consequences for diabetics.
Often after lots of alcohol has been consumed, it is possible to get the sense that the room is spinning, technically called positional alcohol nystagmus. Although motor areas of the brain are usually heavily affected at this time, it is not directly the brain which is responsible here; alcohol has affected the organss responsible for balance, present in the ears. Balance in the body is monitored principally by two systems: the semicircular canals, and the utricle and saccule pair. Inside both of these is a flexible blob called a cupola, which moves when the body moves. This brushes against hairs in the ear, creating nerve impulses that travel through the 8th Cranial Nerve in to the brain. However, when alcohol gets in to the bloodstream it distorts the shape of the cupola, causing it to keep pressing on to the hairs. These 'fake' nerve impulse tell your brain that the body is rotating, causing disorientation and making the eyes spin round to compensate. When this wears off (usually taking until the following morning) the brain has adjusted to the spinning, and interprets not spinning as spinning in the opposite direction causing further disorientation. This is often a common symptom of the hangover.
Extreme over-indulgence can lead to alcohol poisoning and death due to respiratory depression.
A person who is an alcoholic or habitually drunk is often referred to as a 'drunk'.
Effects of alcohol on the body
Moderate doses
Excessive doses
Slang terms for being drunk:
The ancients believed that putting an amethyst in the glass or in one's mouth while drinking prevented drunkenness.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Drunkenness."
Synonyms: DrunkennessSynonyms: alcohol addiction (n), alcoholism (n), boozing (n), crapulence (n), drink (n), drinking (n), inebriation (n), inebriety (n), intoxication (n), tipsiness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: soberness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Noun: drunkenness; Adjective: intemperance; drinking; Verb: inebriety, inebriation; ebriety, ebriosity; insobriety; intoxication; temulency, bibacity, wine bibbing; comtation, potation; deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations; bender. |
Food | Drinking; Verb: potation, draught, libation; carousal; (amusement); drunkenness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Drunkenness |
| English words defined with "drunkenness": aspiration penumonia ♦ besot ♦ dazed, Drunkenhead, Drunkship ♦ Ebriety, Ebriosity ♦ foggy ♦ groggy ♦ Insobriety, Intoxicatedness ♦ logy ♦ stupefy, stupify, stuporous ♦ Temulency, to boot. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "drunkenness": ADMIRAL OF THE NARROW SEAS ♦ Bell-wavering ♦ CROPSICK ♦ Drunk ♦ Feast, Fetiche ♦ Nabal ♦ Scobellum, SHOOT THE CAT ♦ TO CAT ♦ Walk Chalks, Wharton. (references) |
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Screenplays | Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness. (Wilde; writing credit: Richard Ellmann; Julian Mitchell) I regret trifling with married women, I'm thoroughly ashamed at cheating at cards, I deplore my occasional departures from the truth, Forgive me for taking your name in vain, my Saturday drunkenness, my Sunday Sloth. (The Cowboys; writing credit: William Dale Jennings; Irving Ravetch) | |
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 | [In the battle with drunkenness!]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Poster, composed of six different images, highlighting behavior that impedes perestroika: drunkenness, laziness, covetousness, bribery, speculation, embezzlement] / Kollektiv avtorov. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Bishop Robert South | Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. |
Marguerite Duras | Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. |
Seneca | Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. |
St. Basil | Drunkenness is the ruin of reason. It is premature old age. It is temporary death. |
William James | If merely ''feeling good'' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | She felt that half this folly must be drunkenness, and therefore could hope that it might belong only to the passing hour. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This is the place for intoxication and not for drunkenness. |
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Health | The disease is characterized by clumsiness and weakness in the arms and legs, spasticity, a staggering lurching gait easily mistaken for drunkenness, difficulty with speech and swallowing, involuntary eye movements, double vision, and frequent urination. (references) | |
Business | Individuals convicted of drunkenness have been sentenced to 80 lashes. (references) | |
Human Rights | Tuvalu | It is rare for a prisoner to spend as long as a week in a cell; more commonly, a person is incarcerated overnight because of drunkenness. (references) |
Kenya | The Kwach Commission cited "corruption, incompetence, neglect of duty, theft, drunkenness, lateness, sexual harassment, and racketeering" as common problems in the judiciary. (references) | |
Kiribati | On some outer islands, the island councils occasionally order strokes with palm fronds to be administered for public drunkenness and other minor offenses, such as petty thievery. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are "movable" and "immovable," but the celebrants are uniformly immovable until they are full. In their earliest development these entertainments took the form of feasts for the dead; such were held by the Greeks, under the name Nemeseia, by the Aztecs and Peruvians, as in modern times they are popular with the Chinese; though it is believed that the ancient dead, like the modern, were light eaters. Among the many feasts of the Romans was the Novemdiale, which was held, according to Livy, whenever stones fell from heaven. |
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Kevin Kline | Mr. Bell, a word of warning, as the great wit Aristophanes once wrote, roughly translated, youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever. |
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| "Drunkenness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Drunkenness" is used about 159 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 159 | 24,860 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "drunkenness". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Shicron | N/A | Biblical | Drunkenness |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
drunkenness | 20 |
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| Language | Translations for "drunkenness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | beskonkenheid (inebriety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سكر ثمل (inebriety, intoxicate, intoxication), السكر (grogginess, inebriation), الادمان للخمر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 醉态. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | drikfaeldighed, fuldskab (ebriety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | roes (inebriety, lust, passion), dronkenschap (inebriety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | ebrio, ebrieco (inebriety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | rúsur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | juopumus (intoxication), juoppous (hard drinking, insobriety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ivrognerie, ivresse, ébriété. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | dronkenskip (inebriety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Trunkenheit (inebriation, intoxication), betrunkenheit (inebriety, intoxication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μέθη (grogginess, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שתי" (drink, drinking, intoxication), שתי ות (drink, drinking), שכרון (ebriety, grogginess, inebriety), שכרות (grogginess, inebriety, intoxication), סביא" (bibbling, boozing, drinking, quaffing, spree, tippling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | részegség (inebriety, intoxication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ebbrezza (elation, intoxication, thrill), ubriachezza (intoxication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 酩酊 (intoxication), "態 (intoxication), "い (intoxication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | すいたい (decadence, decay, decline, declining, ebb tide, intoxication, presided over by, waning, weaken, weakening), めいてい (intoxication), よい (early night hours, evening, good, implied meaning, intoxication, nice, ok, pleasant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 취태. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | buracheria (inebriety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | unkennessdray embriaguez (crapulence, fuddle, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, pickle, skinful), bebedeira (bacchanalia, binge, fuddle, guzzle, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, libation, pickle, skinful, spree, wassail). (various references) ebrietate (ebriety), beţie (booze, carousal, debauch, debauchery, drink, drinking bout, drunk, ecstasy, fuddle, inebriation, insobriety, intoxication, libation, rouse, sheet). (various references) пьянство (alcoholism, debauchery, heavy drinking, inebriety, potation). (various references) misg (drunk, intoxication : air mhisg), bach. (various references) pijanstvo (inebriation, inebriety), opijenost (inebriation). (various references) embriaguez (inebriety, intoxication), ebriedad (intoxication), borrachera (binge, boose, booze, razzle, razzle-dazzle). (various references) drungu (drunk, inebriety, intoxicated). (various references) dryckenskap (drink, drunkennesa, inebriety, intemperance, potation). (various references) ความมึนเมา. (various references) sarhoşluk (being drunk, crapulence, drunk, ebriety, grogginess, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, jag, souse), sarhoş olma (getting drunk, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication), ayyaşlık (alcoholism, debauch, debauchery, insobriety). (various references) сп'яніння (exhilaration, fuddle, inebriation, intoxication, wine), хміль (hop), пияцтво (alcoholism, bibbing, debauchery, drink, drinking, potations, suction). (various references) sự say rượu chứng nghiện rượu. (various references) meddwdod (intoxication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | crapula, crapulae, crapulam, ebrietas, ebrietate, ebrietatem, ebrietates, ebrietatibus, ebrietatis. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Romans Chapter 13, Verse 13 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | WV en hmera euschmonwV peripathswmen mh kwmoiV kai meqaiV mh koitaiV kai aselgeiaiV mh eridi kai zhlw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Sicut in die honeste ambulemus non in comesationibus et ebrietatibus non in cubilibus et inpudicitiis non in contentione et aemulatione |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | As in dai wandre we onestli, not in superflu feestis and drunkenessis, not in beddis and vnchastitees, not in strijf and in enuye; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Let vs walke honestly as it were in the daye lyght: not in eatynge and drinkynge: nether in chamburynge and wantannes: nether in stryfe and envyinge: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy. |
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| Language | Romans Chapter 13, Verse 13 |
| Cebuano | Maingon sa maadlaw, magkinabuhi kita nga maligdong, dili sa mga paghudyakabahakhak ug sa mga paghuboghubog, dili sa pakighilawas ug kalaw-ayan, dili sa pakig-away ug pagpangabubho. |
| Croatian | Kao po danu pristojno hodimo, ne u pijankama i pijanèevanjima, ne u priležništvima i razvratnostima, ne u svaði i ljubomoru, |
| Danish | lader os vandre sømmeligt som om Dagen, ikke i Svir og Drik, ikke i Løsagtighed og Uterlighed, ikke i Kiv og Avind; |
| Dutch | Laat ons, als in den dag, eerlijk wandelen; niet in brasserijen en dronkenschappen, niet in slaapkameren en ontuchtigheden, niet in twist en nijdigheid; |
| Finnish | Vaeltakaamme säädyllisesti, niin kuin päivällä, ei mässäyksissä ja juomingeissa, ei haureudessa ja irstaudessa, ei riidassa ja kateudessa, |
| French | Marchons honnêtement, comme en plein jour, loin des excès et de l`ivrognerie, de la luxure et de l`impudicité, des querelles et des jalousies. |
| German | Lasset uns ehrbar wandeln als am Tage, nicht in Fressen und Saufen, nicht in Kammern und Unzucht, nicht in Hader und Neid; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kita harus melakukan hal-hal terhormat seperti yang biasanya dilakukan orang pada siang hari; jangan berpesta pora melampaui batas, atau mabuk. Jangan cabul, atau berkelakuan tidak sopan. Jangan berkelahi, atau iri hati. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hendaklah kita berjalan dengan kelakuan yang senonoh, seperti yang patut pada siang hari; jangan dengan lazat dan mabuk, dan jangan dengan persundalan dan percabulan, dan jangan dengan perkelahian dan cemburuan. |
| Italian | Comportiamoci onestamente, come in pieno giorno: non in mezzo a gozzoviglie e ubriachezze, non fra impurit e licenze, non in contese e gelosie. |
| Latvian | Dzîvosim godîgi kâ dienâ: ne plîtçdami un dzîrodami, ne izvirtîbâ un netiklîbâ, ne íildâs un skaudîbâ, |
| Maori | Kia pai ta tatou haere, kia rite ki to te awatea: kauaka i nga kakainga, i nga haurangitanga, kaua i te puremu, i nga hiahia taikaha, kaua i te ngangau, i te hae. |
| Norwegian | La oss vandre sømmelig, som om dagen, ikke i svir og drikk, ikke i løsaktighet og skamløshet, ikke i kiv og avind, |
| Portuguese | Andemos honestamente, como de dia: não em glutonarias e bebedeiras, não em impudicícias e dissoluções, não em contendas e inveja. |
| Rumanian | Sq trqim frumos, ca kn timpul zilei, nu kn chefuri wi kn beyii; nu kn curvii wi kn fapte de ruwine; nu kn certuri wi kn pizmq; |
| Shuar | Túratniua nujai métek wekasatai. Tsawai wekaakur kiritniunam uumkar Tunáa Túrutai Túrashtai. Nampetsuk, yajauch warartsuk, tsanirmatsuk, jianaitsuk, tura kajernaitsuk aya pénker Túratai. |
| Spanish | Andemos decentemente, como de día; no con glotonerías y borracheras, ni en pecados sexuales y desenfrenos, ni en peleas y envidia. |
| Swahili | Mwenendo wetu uwe wa adabu kama inavyostahili wakati wa mchana; tusiwe na ulafi na ulevi, uchafu na uasherati, ugomvi na wivu. |
| Swedish | Låtom oss föra en hövisk vandel, såsom om dagen, icke med vilt leverne och dryckenskap, icke i otukt och lösaktighet, icke i kiv och avund. |
| Uma | Babehi gau' to masipato' hi kabajaa-na. Neo' ntora mosusa' palangu-langu. Hi gau' tomane pai' tobine neo' mogau' sala' ba mpotuku' kahinaa nono-ta to dada'a. Neo' motuda' ba mohingi'. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "drunkenness": drunkennesses. (additional references) | |
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"Drunkenness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: drunkedness, drunkeness, Dukeness. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "drunkenness" (pronounced dru"ngkunnus) |
| 5 | -u n n u s | evenness, humanness, openness, suddenness. |
| 4 | -n n u s | cleanness, greenness, meanness, oneness, sternness, stubbornness, thinness. |
| 3 | -n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, appropriateness, arbitrariness, assertiveness, astuteness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, bagginess, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, bluntness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, correctness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, crookedness, cuteness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, earnestness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, exogenous, eyewitness, faintness, fairness, farsightedness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, goodness, governess, graciousness, greatness, grimness, hairiness, handedness, happiness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, largeness, lateness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, madness, Manus, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, nearsightedness, neatness, nervousness, newness, niceness, niggardliness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, onus, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, politeness, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, queasiness, quickness, quietness, raciness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, rightness, riskiness, robustness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, rudeness, ruinous, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, separateness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, solitariness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadfastness, steadiness, steepness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, stoutness, strangeness, sturdiness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tardiness, tartness, tastiness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, timeliness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unpleasantness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-k-n-n-n-r-s-s-u" | |
-3 letters: nudeness, rudeness, unkenned. | |
-4 letters: drunken, dueness, dunkers, dunness, endures, ensured, ensures, redness, resends, senders, sunders, undress. | |
-5 letters: denser, drunks, druses, dunker, dunner, duress, enders, endues, endure, ensued, ensues, ensure, enured, enures, eskers, kenned, kerned, kernes, nursed, nurses, resend, reused, reuses, seders, sender, sensed, skeens, skenes, sneers, sudser, suedes, sunder, sunken, sunned, unkend, unseen. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-k-n-n-n-r-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: drunkennesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Derived from 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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