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Tipsiness

noun

A temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol. Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication.

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"Tipsiness" Quotes from Famous Books

... University of Heidelberg, who had come to Mannheim for their quarter's revenue, and so had some hundred of dollars between them, were introduced to the table, and, having never played before, began to win (as is always the case). As ill luck would have it, too, they were tipsy, and against tipsiness I have often found the best calculations of play fail entirely. They played in the most perfectly insane way, and yet won always. Every card they backed turned up in their favour. They had won a hundred louis from us in ten minutes; and, seeing that Pippi ...

— Barry Lyndon • William Makepeace Thackeray

... I sat by the window and enjoyed the slight tipsiness produced by short, limited, rapid oscillations, which I take to be the exhilarating stage of that condition which reaches hopeless inebriety in what we know as sea-sickness. Where the horizon opened widely, it pleased ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

Words linked to "Tipsiness" : intoxication, inebriation, soberness, tipsy, inebriety, drunkenness, grogginess, temporary state, sottishness, insobriety