insobriety

[ in-suh-brahy-i-tee ]

/ ˌɪn səˈbraɪ ɪ ti /

lack of sobriety or moderation; intemperance; drunkenness.

Origin of insobriety

First recorded in 1605–15; in-³ + sobriety

The actor grew moody, splenetic, and gave way to insobriety.

Curiosities of Impecuniosity |H. G. Somerville
Insobriety was the normal condition of Fewson after school hours.

The Parish Clerk (1907) |Peter Hampson Ditchfield
That also is a mode, we need not say of intoxication, but of insobriety.

Essays of Travel |Robert Louis Stevenson
Insobriety is, as I need hardly tell you, the one unpardonable sin in the eyes of a shipowner.

Dick Leslie's Luck |Harry Collingwood

The reader will observe that this dissipation, six weeks of insobriety, is alleged to have occurred after Keats began to despond.

Life of John Keats |William Michael Rossetti

insobriety

/ (ˌɪnsəʊˈbraɪɪtɪ) /

lack of sobriety; intemperance