inebriation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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
    alcoholism; drunkenness; alcohol addiction.
  2. noun a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol
    tipsiness; insobriety; drunkenness; inebriety; intoxication.

WordNet

In*e`bri*a"tion noun
Etymology
L. inebriatio.
Definitions
  1. The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success. Sir T. Browne.
    Preserve him from the inebriation of prosperity. Macaulay.
    Syn. -- See Drunkenness.

Webster 1913