Drunkardliness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being drunkardly. uncountable

    "A drunkard (if he is a terminologically pure drunkard—again, realities are collapsed into nominalities) necessarily takes the drink because taking the drink is necessarily implied, even if it is not compelled, by the fact of drunkardliness."

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"A drunkard (if he is a terminologically pure drunkard—again, realities are collapsed into nominalities) necessarily takes the drink because taking the drink is necessarily implied, even if it is not compelled, by the fact of drunkardliness."

Etymology

From drunkardly + -ness.

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