inebriation

Other forms of inebriation

plural

inebriations·

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 inebriation

What does inebriation mean?

inebriation means "habitual intoxication; 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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inebriation?

inebriation has 6 syllables: i-ne-bri-a-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for inebriation?

Close synonyms include alcoholism, alcohol addiction, drunkenness, drunkenness, inebriety. 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.

Is inebriation a common word?

inebriation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.