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Intoxication vs Earnestness - What's the difference?

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Intoxication is a related term of earnestness.


As nouns the difference between intoxication and earnestness

is that intoxication is a poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance while earnestness is the quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.

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.

    • earnestness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being earnest; sincerity; seriousness.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
  • *:She’s joined, on the boys’ side, by Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), a baker’s son whose earnestness masks a gift for strategy that Katniss lacks.