sobriety

Other forms of sobriety

plural

sobrieties·

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 sobriety

What does sobriety mean?

sobriety means "the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sobriety?

sobriety has 4 syllables: so-bri-e-ty. The stress falls on "bri". In IPA it is /səˈbɹaɪəti/.

What is another word for sobriety?

Close synonyms include soberness, dryness, graveness, gravity, soberness. 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 sobriety a common word?

sobriety is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.