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/in'seuh bruy"i tee/, n.lack of sobriety or moderation; intemperance; drunkenness.[1605-15; IN-3 + SOBRIETY]
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Insobriety — In so*bri e*ty, n. [Pref. in not + ?obriety: cf. F. insobri[ e]t[ e].] Lack of sobriety, moderation, or calmness; intemperance; drunkenness. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
insobriety — index dipsomania, inebriation Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
insobriety — 1610s, from IN (Cf. in ) (1) not, opposite of + SOBRIETY (Cf. sobriety) … Etymology dictionary
insobriety — [in΄sō brī′ə tē, in΄səbrī′ə tē] n. lack of sobriety; intemperance, esp. in drinking … English World dictionary
insobriety — noun Date: 1611 lack of sobriety or moderation; especially intemperance in drinking … New Collegiate Dictionary
insobriety — noun The state of being drunk; a lack of sobriety. Ant: sobriety … Wiktionary
insobriety — Synonyms and related words: Dutch courage, a high, befuddlement, besottedness, drunkenness, fuddle, fuddledness, fuddlement, hangover, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, katzenjammer, morning after, pot valiance, pot valor, sottedness,… … Moby Thesaurus
insobriety — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. alcoholism, inebriety, intoxication; see drunkenness . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The condition of being intoxicated with alcoholic liquor: crapulence, drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness. See… … English dictionary for students
insobriety — in·so·bri·e·ty || ‚ɪnsəʊ braɪətɪ n. drunkenness, intoxication, inebriation … English contemporary dictionary
insobriety — noun drunkenness … English new terms dictionary
