Word Meanings - SOBERNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being sober.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SOBERNESS)

• Ebriety
• Soberness
• freshness
• temperance
• Sobriety
• abstemiousness

Related words: (words related to SOBERNESS)

• FRESHNESS
  The state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.
• EBRIETY
  Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety. "Ruinous ebriety." Cowper.
• SOBERNESS
  The quality or state of being sober.
• TEMPERANCE
  1. Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation,
• SOBRIETY
  1. Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety. Public sobriety is a relative duty. Blackstone. 2. Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness;
• ABSTEMIOUSNESS
  The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.
• INSOBRIETY
  Want of sobriety, moderation, or calmness; intemperance; drunkenness.
• DISTEMPERANCE
  Distemperature.
• INEBRIETY
  Drunkenness; inebriation. E. Darwin.
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• ATTEMPERANCE
  Temperance; attemperament. Chaucer.
• INTEMPERANCE
  1. The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate indulgence of the appetites or passions. God is in every creature; be cruel toward none, neither abuse any by intemperance. Jer.