temulence means drunkenness; intoxication. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “temulence” is a great word
TEMULENCE — [Noun] The state of being drunk; intoxication, drunkenness. Learned borrowing from Latin tēmulentia ("drunkenness"), from tēmulentus ("drunken"). First attested in English in the early 19th century (1803). Unlike "inebriation," a common and workmanlike synonym, or "intoxication," a broad term for any substance's sway, temulence is a word of specific, antique gravity for the wine-stained condition. It is the amber glow of lamplight haloing a forgotten glass, the heavy warmth in the limbs of a man slumped in a library chair, the slow, deliberate enunciation of a thought that has lost its thread—a formal name for a state of dignified ruin.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin tēmulentia.
noun
- Drunkenness; intoxication.“But the postcard was not invented in England until 1870, so Miss Barrett had no way of curbing her temulence to a dram of postcard-size.”