drunkenness

Other forms of drunkenness

plural

drunkennesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about drunkenness

What does drunkenness mean?

drunkenness means "a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in drunkenness?

drunkenness has 3 syllables: drun-ken-ness. The stress falls on "drun". In IPA it is /ˈdɹʌŋkənnəs/.

What is another word for drunkenness?

Close synonyms include inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness, insobriety. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of drunkenness?

The recorded antonyms are soberness.

Is drunkenness a common word?

drunkenness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.