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Drunkenness vs Ebriety - What's the difference?

drunkenness | ebriety |

As nouns the difference between drunkenness and ebriety

is that drunkenness is a state of being drunk while ebriety is (uncountable) the state of intoxication, drunkenness.

drunkenness

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A state of being drunk

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * soberness; see also

    Related terms

    * drunk * drunkard * drunken

    See also

    * ("drunkenness" on Wikipedia)

    ebriety

    English

    Noun

    (ebrieties)
  • (uncountable) The state of intoxication, drunkenness.
  • *1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 351:
  • *: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.
  • (obsolete) An instance of being drunk.