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Ebriety vs Intoxication - What's the difference?

ebriety | intoxication |

As nouns the difference between ebriety and intoxication

is that ebriety is (uncountable) the state of intoxication, drunkenness while intoxication is a poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.

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.

    • intoxication

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.
    • He suffered acute intoxication from the combined effects of several drugs.
  • The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk.
  • A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness.