Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Drunkenness \Drunk"en*ness\, n.
   1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic
      liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual
      state or the habit.

            The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate
            drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their
            company.                              --I. Watts.

   2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by
      liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.

            Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. -- South.

   Syn: Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety. -- {Drunkenness},
        {Intoxication}, {Inebriation}. Drunkenness refers more
        to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific
        acts. The first two words are extensively used in a
        figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success,
        and is drunk with joy. ``This plan of empire was not
        taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected
        success.'' --Burke.

Source : WordNet®

drunkenness
     n 1: a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of
          alcohol [syn: {inebriation}, {inebriety}, {intoxication},
           {tipsiness}] [ant: {soberness}]
     2: Habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of
        alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an
        addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to
        severe withdrawal symptoms [syn: {alcoholism}, {alcohol
        addiction}, {inebriation}]
     3: the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink
        was his downfall" [syn: {drink}, {drinking}, {boozing}, {crapulence}]