Drünk'en-ness, n.

(109), n. 1. The state of being drunken, or overpowered by alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. Watts. 2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage. Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. Spencer. Syn.—Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety.—DRUNK-ENNESS, INTOXICATION, INEBRIATION. Drunkenness refers more to the habit of excessive drinking; intoxication and inebriation, to specific acts. The first two words are extensively used in a figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success, and is drunk with joy. “This plan of empire was not taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected success.” Burke. “Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.” Spencer.