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Ebriety vs Inebriety - What's the difference?

ebriety | inebriety |

As nouns the difference between ebriety and inebriety

is that ebriety is the state of intoxication, drunkenness while inebriety is the state of being inebriated; inebriation, drunkenness.

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.

    • inebriety

    English

    Noun

    (inebrieties)
  • The state of being inebriated; inebriation, drunkenness.

    • References

    * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.