English Alternative forms Etymology drunken -ness
Noun drunkenness (usually uncountable , plural drunkennesses
A state of being drunk .
1885 , Richard F. Burton , The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night But presently the fumes of the wine rising to his head, he became helplessly drunk and his side-muscles and limbs relaxed and he swayed to and fro on my back. When I saw that he had lost his senses for drunkenness , I put my head to his legs and, loosing them from my neck, stooped down well-nigh to the ground and threw him at full length, [ …] Synonyms Antonyms Related terms Translations state of being drunk
Asturian: borrachera f enfile m ( colloquial )
Basque: mozkorraldi
Catalan: embriaguesa (ca) f ( colloquial ) turca (ca) f borratxera (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 醉態 ／ 醉态 (zh) ( zuìtài ) , 醉态 (zh) ( zuìtài ) , 酒醉 (zh) ( jiǔzuì ) , 酩酊 (zh) ( mǐngdǐng )
Czech: opilost (cs) f
Danish: fuldskab c
Dutch: dronkenschap (nl) f
Esperanto: ebriiĝo
Finnish: juopumus (fi) , humalatila (fi)
French: ébriété (fr) , ivresse (fr)
Galician: borracheira (gl) f peido m moca f
German: Trunkenheit f Betrunkenheit (de) f Alkoholberauschung f Alkoholberauschtheit f
Greek: μέθη (el) f ( méthi ) , μεθύσι (el) n ( methýsi )
Ancient: μέθη f ( méthē )
Hebrew: שכרון ( shikharón )
Hungarian: részegség (hu)
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Icelandic: ölvun f drykkjuskapur m óregla f ölæði n
Ido: ebrieso (io)
Irish: meisce f
Italian: ubriachezza (it) f sbornia (it) f ciucca (it) f ubriacatura (it) f
Japanese: 酩酊 (ja) ( めいてい, meitei )
Latin: ēbrietās f
Lun Bawang: abuk
Manx: meshtallys m scooyr f
Norman: bouaissonn'nie f béthie f ivrouongn'nie f
Persian: مستی (fa) ( masti )
Polish: pijaństwo (pl) n
Portuguese: bebedeira (pt) f embriaguez (pt) , tosga
Romanian: beție (ro) f
Russian: опьяне́ние (ru) n ( opʹjanénije ) , пья́нство (ru) n ( pʹjánstvo )
Scottish Gaelic: daorach f misg f smùid f
Spanish: borrachera (es) f embriaguez (es) f pedo (es) m cogorza (es) f
Telugu: మత్తు (te) ( mattu )
Turkish: sarhoşluk (tr)
Welsh: meddwdod m
See also 
drunkenness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 