Synonyms for intoxication
ɪnˌtɒk sɪˈkeɪ ʃənin·tox·i·ca·tion

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1. intoxication

   Synonyms:
   drunkenness, excess, gluttony, greed, intemperance, reveling, revelry, self-indulgence, sensuality, wantonness

   Antonyms:
   abstemiousness, abstinence, continence, fasting, frugality, moderation, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, sobriety, temperance

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1. intoxication

   Synonyms:
   venom, poison, obfuscation, bewilderment, delirium, hallucination, ravishment, ecstasy, inebriation, drunkenness, inebriety

   Antonyms:
   antidote, clarification, sobriety, sanity, ebriety, melancholy, depression

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1. poisoning, toxic condition, intoxicationnoun

   the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance

   Synonyms:
   inebriety, drunkenness, inebriation, poisoning, insobriety, tipsiness, toxic condition

2. drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness, insobrietynoun

   a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol

   Synonyms:
   drinking, inebriety, drunkenness, alcohol addiction, inebriation, poisoning, drink, insobriety, alcoholism, tipsiness, boozing, crapulence, toxic condition

3. intoxicationnoun

   excitement and elation beyond the bounds of sobriety

   "the intoxication of wealth and power"

   Synonyms:
   inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, toxic condition, drunkenness, poisoning, tipsiness

Matched Categories

1. • Excitement

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1. intoxicationnoun

   Synonyms:
   inebriation, ebriety, inebriety, drunkenness

2. intoxicationnoun

   Synonyms:
   infatuation, great excitement, great exhilaration

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1. List of paraphrases for "intoxication":

   poisoning, drunkenness, exhilaration, toxicity, paralytic, overdose

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. intoxication

   Synonyms:
   Poisoning

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1. Cynthia Otto:

   Dogs are not as sensitive to opioids as humans are, if a dog is showing sign of opioid intoxication, that means they were exposed to a really big dose.

2. Lord Byron, Don Juan:

   Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication.

3. Eddie Ray Routh:

   Voluntarily induced intoxication is not an excuse for the mentally ill.

4. Samuel Butler:

   If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

5. Aldous Huxley:

   We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.