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Inebriation vs Ebriety - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between inebriation and ebriety

is that inebriation is the state or characteristic of drunkenness while ebriety is the state of intoxication, drunkenness.

inebriation

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state or characteristic of drunkenness.

    • Synonyms

    * drunkenness, inebriacy; see also

    Antonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * inebriacy * inebriant * inebriate * inebriated * inebriety

    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.