Inebriety

Definition: Inebriety

Inebriety

Noun

1. A temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol.

Date "inebriety" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Note: Inebriety \In`e*bri"e*ty\, noun. [See Inebriate, Ebriety.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Inebriety

Synonyms: drunkenness (n), inebriation (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.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Inebriety

English words defined with "inebriety": Ebriety. (references)

Specialty definitions using "inebriety": Friar's Lanthorn. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	She's Hathor, the goddess of fertility, inebriety, and music. (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Alcoholic Inebriety from a Medical Standpoint (reference) Inebriety (reference) The Disease of Inebriety from Alcohol, Opium, and Other Narcotic Drugs (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	And, a common effect of the second stage of inebriety into which Enjolras had rudely and suddenly pushed him, a moment later he was asleep.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language		Translations for "inebriety"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		beskonkenheid (drunkenness). (various references)

Albanian		dehje (exhilaration, fuddle, inebriation, insobriety, intoxication), alkoolizëm (alcoholism, Dipsomania). (various references)

Arabic		‏سكر ثمل (drunkenness, intoxicate, intoxication), ‏إدمان الشرب. (various references)

Bulgarian		алкохолизъм (alcoholism, crapulence), пиянство (alcoholism, crapulence, drink, drinking, fuddle, inebriation, insobriety, intemperance, spree). (various references)

Czech		opilost (intoxication). (various references)

Dutch		zwĳmel, zwýmel (drunkenness), zatheid (drunkenness), roes (drunkenness, inebriation, lust, passion), dronkenschap (drunkenness, ebriety, intoxication), beschonkenheid (drunkenness). (various references)

Esperanto		ebrieco (drunkenness). (various references)

Farsi		مستی (Drunk, Languor, Rut, Spree). (various references)

French		ivresse (intoxication), alcoolisme, état d'ébriété. (various references)

Frisian		dronkenskip (drunkenness). (various references)

German		Betrunkenheit (drunkenness, intoxication). (various references)

Greek		μέθη (drunkenness, ebriety, grogginess, inebriation, insobriety, intoxication). (various references)

Hebrew		שכרון (drunkenness, ebriety, grogginess), שכרות (drunkenness, grogginess, intoxication). (various references)

Hungarian		részegség (drunkenness, intoxication). (various references)

Manx		neuheeltys (insobriety, intemperance), meshtey (souse), meshtallys (drunkeness, inebriation, intoxication), anheeltys (intemperance). (various references)

Papiamen		buracheria (drunkenness). (various references)

Pig Latin		inebrietyay

Portuguese		embriaguez (crapulence, drunkenness, ebriety, fuddle, inebriation, intoxication, pickle, skinful). (various references)

Russian		алкоголизм (alcoholism, dipsomania, heavy drinking), пьянство (alcoholism, debauchery, drunkenness, heavy drinking, potation). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pijanstvo (drunkenness, inebriation). (various references)

Spanish		embriaguez (drunkenness, ebriety, inebriation, intoxication). (various references)

Sranan		drungu (drunk, drunkenness, intoxicated). (various references)

Swedish		dryckenskap (drink, drunkennesa, drunkenness, intemperance, potation), berusning (inebriation, intoxication). (various references)

Thai		ความมึนเมา (คำโบรา�"). (various references)

Turkish		sarhoşluk (being drunk, crapulence, drunk, drunkenness, ebriety, grogginess, inebriation, intoxication, jag, souse), sarhoş olma (drunkenness, getting drunk, inebriation, intoxication), kafayı bulma (becoming drunk, inebriation). (various references)

Vietnamese		tật nghiện rượu, sự say rượu tật say sưa. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Inebriety" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inebriat, inebriete, inebrity. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "inebriety" (pronounced 'In`e*bri"e*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-e-i-i-n-r-t-y"
	-2 letters: niterie.
	-3 letters: byrnie, entire, nitery, retine, ribeye, tinier, triene.
	-4 letters: beery, beret, binit, biter, brent, brine, briny, enter, entry, eyrie, inbye, inert, inter, niter, nitre, rente, retie, teeny, terne, treen, tribe, trine, yente.
	-5 letters: been, beer, beet, bene, bent, bier, bine, bint, bite, bree, bren, brie, brin, brit, byre, byte, eery, erne, eyen, eyer.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-e-i-i-n-r-t-y"
	+3 letters: renewability, venerability.
	+4 letters: cybernetician, cyberneticist, enumerability, penetrability.
	+5 letters: cyberneticians, cyberneticists, denumerability, enforceability, indeterminably, presentability, preventability.
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