ebriety means The state of intoxication, drunkenness. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
EBRIETY — [Noun] The settled, inhabitable state of being drunk; the achieved dominion of alcohol over sense. From French ébriété ("drunkenness"), from Latin ēbrietātem, accusative of ēbrietās ("drunkenness"), from ēbrius ("drunk"). Unlike "inebriation" (which foregrounds the tipping over into drunkenness) or "intoxication" (a broader, clinical term for any poison's sway), ebriety is the specific, sovereign realm of the drink. It is the warm, slow-motion haze of a tavern at last call, the deliberate and failed attempt to thread a key into its lock, and the peculiar, melancholic clarity found at the bottle's bottom—a temporary, liquid sovereignty whose lease expires with the morning.
noun
- The state of intoxication, drunkenness.“God's touches, the wounds of his spear, references to ebriety and to nuptial union have to figure in the phraseology by which [a mystical state] is shadowed forth.”
- An instance of being drunk.