different between drunkenness vs temulency

English

Alternative forms

• dronkennesse (obsolete)

Etymology

drunken +? -ness

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???k?n.n?s/
• Hyphenation: drunk?en?ness

Noun

drunkenness (usually uncountable, plural drunkennesses)

1. A state of being drunk.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     But presently the fumes of the wine rising to his head, he became helplessly drunk and his side-muscles and limbs relaxed and he swayed to and fro on my back. When I saw that he had lost his senses for drunkenness, I put my head to his legs and, loosing them from my neck, stooped down well-nigh to the ground and threw him at full length, […]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:drunkenness

Antonyms

• soberness; see also Thesaurus:drunkenness#Antonyms

Related terms

• drunk
• drunkard
• drunken

Translations

See also

• drunkenness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Latin temulentia.

Noun

temulency (uncountable)

1. Intoxication, drunkenness
   • 2002, Grant Jarrett, More Towels: In Between the Notes, iUniverse (2002), ?ISBN, page 65:

     Then, as quickly as was possible given our shared temulency, we staggered into the living room.

   • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience

     vilenesses they commit in their wine (meaning when they know not what they do) for the deeds themselves so ignorantly committed they find pardon amongst wise judges, but for their temulency a condemnation

Related terms

• temulent