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insobriety

insobriety noun: the state of being drunk; a lack of sobriety.

Noun

insobriety (countable and uncountable, plural insobrieties)

  1. The state of being drunk; a lack of sobriety.

insobriety meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

insobriety in Tamil

போதை, குடிமயக்கம், மதிமயக்கம்

insobriety in Urdu

بدمستی, مخموری, متوالا پن

insobriety in Malayalam

inebriation, drunkenness, intoxication
ലഹരി, ലാഹിരി, ഹരം, മദ്യോന്മാദം, കുടിവെറി, വെളിവില്ലാ്യമ

Antonyms of insobriety

Forms of insobriety

pluralinsobrieties

Origin of insobriety

From in- (“not”) + sobriety, possibly influenced by and punning on inebriation, intoxication, where in- has the sense “in, into”.

Questions about insobriety

What does insobriety mean?
Insobriety means the state of being drunk; a lack of sobriety.
What is insobriety in Tamil?
Insobriety in Tamil is போதை, குடிமயக்கம், மதிமயக்கம். See Insobriety meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is insobriety?
Insobriety is a noun.
What is the plural of insobriety?
The plural of insobriety is insobrieties.

Words near insobriety in the dictionary

  1. insnarls
  2. insns
  3. insober
  4. insobrieties
  5. insobrietous
  6. insobriety
  7. insociability
  8. insociable
  9. insociableness
  10. insociably
  11. insocial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: insobriety (page history and authors); insobriety (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); insobriety (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); insobriety (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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