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temulence en · NOUN

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tēmulentia.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Drunkenness; intoxication.
    • But the postcard was not invented in England until 1870, so Miss Barrett had no way of curbing her temulence to a dram of postcard-size. 1933, Osbert Burdett, The Brownings, Constable & Co. Ltd., page 44:

Antonyms

pissedness · staggers and jags · drunkenness · temulence · sobriety · fuddling · temulency · abstentiousness · brick in one's hat · abstemiousness · alecy

Relateds

temulent · temulentive

Synonyms

temulency · temulence · fuddling · drunkenness · brick in one's hat · staggers and jags · alecy · pissedness · temulency