'Sobriety' definitions:
Definition of 'sobriety'
(from WordNet)
noun
The state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol [syn: soberness, sobriety] [ant: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness]
noun
Moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs [syn: sobriety, dryness]
noun
A manner that is serious and solemn [syn: graveness, gravity, sobriety, soberness, somberness, sombreness]
noun
Abstaining from excess [syn: sobriety, temperance]
Definition of 'Sobriety'
From: GCIDE
- Sobriety \So*bri"e*ty\, n. [L. sobrietas: cf. F. sobri['e]t['e]. See Sober.]
- 1. Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety. [1913 Webster]
- Public sobriety is a relative duty. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity; seriousness; as, the sobriety of riper years. [1913 Webster]
- Mirth makes them not mad, Nor sobriety sad. --Denham. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Soberness; temperance; abstinence; abstemiousness; moderation; regularity; steadness; calmness; coolness; sober-mindeness; sedateness; staidness; gravity; seriousness; solemnity. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sobriety'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnegation,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- augustness,
- balance,
- blackishness,
- calm,
- calmness,
- common sense,
- conservatism,
- constraint,
- contact with reality,
- continence,
- control,
- cool,
- cool head,
- coolheadedness,
- coolness,
- courtliness,
- darkishness,
- darkness,
- darksomeness,
- decorousness,
- demureness,
- denial,
- dignifiedness,
- dignity,
- dispassion,
- due sense of,
- duskiness,
- duskness,
- earnestness,
- evenness,
- forbearance,
- formality,
- frugality,
- funereality,
- gentleness,
- golden mean,
- good sense,
- grandeur,
- graveness,
- gravity,
- grimness,
- happy medium,
- healthy mind,
- horse sense,
- impartiality,
- judiciousness,
- juste-milieu,
- kingliness,
- lenity,
- level head,
- levelheadedness,
- loftiness,
- long face,
- lordliness,
- lucid interval,
- lucidity,
- majesty,
- meden agan,
- mental balance,
- mental equilibrium,
- mental health,
- mental hygiene,
- mental poise,
- middle way,
- mildness,
- moderateness,
- moderation,
- moderationism,
- neutrality,
- nobility,
- nonviolence,
- normalcy,
- normality,
- normalness,
- nothing in excess,
- pacifism,
- plain sense,
- practical mind,
- practical wisdom,
- practicality,
- pride of bearing,
- pride of place,
- princeliness,
- proud bearing,
- prudence,
- rationality,
- reason,
- reasonableness,
- regality,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- repose,
- restraint,
- right mind,
- sadness,
- sanemindedness,
- saneness,
- sanity,
- sedateness,
- self-abnegation,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-discipline,
- self-mastery,
- self-restraint,
- sense,
- senses,
- sensibleness,
- serenity,
- seriousness,
- sober senses,
- sober-mindedness,
- soberness,
- sobersidedness,
- sobersides,
- solemnity,
- solemnness,
- somberness,
- sophrosyne,
- sound mind,
- soundness,
- soundness of mind,
- stability,
- staidness,
- stateliness,
- steadiness,
- straight face,
- swarth,
- swarthiness,
- swartness,
- teetotalism,
- temperance,
- temperateness,
- thoughtfulness,
- tranquillity,
- unexcessiveness,
- unextravagance,
- unextremeness,
- venerability,
- via media,
- weightiness,
- wholesomeness,
- worthiness