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sobriety

sobriety

49 4.6
A state of not drinking alcohol or using drugs
  • noun
  • /səˈbraɪ.ɪ.ti/
translation icon : sobriedad
  • His commitment to sobriety was evident when he celebrated his first year without drinking.
  • maintain sobriety
  • achieve sobriety

I literally had to dumb my way into sobriety straight up.

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Examples

  • Is there anyone here with six months sobriety?

  • Are you working on your sobriety?

  • You know, you know, I fell off of my sobriety about a month ago.

  • And my mother was like, she was maybe a year into her sobriety, right?

  • And that first year of sobriety, I continued, I got a job at a beauty supply.

  • And so I was super dedicated to creating this foundation of, of sobriety because my life truly did hang in the balance.

  • One, sobriety, my number one, everything else falls apart without it.

  • And that sobriety enabled me to do that.

  • She worked so hard on her sobriety.

  • People who are sober over time genuinely embrace the value and importance of committing to sobriety in their lives.

Synonyms

soberness
vssobriety
4.9

Not being under the influence of alcohol

includes not drinking alcohol and also not using drugs

Antonyms

20 4.4

A state of being very drunk after drinking too much alcohol

11 5.1

A temporary state when alcohol makes you lose control of your body and mind

How Sober

sobriety
49 4.6
tipsiness
  • Informal
5.6
inebriation
  • Formal
3 7.6

Surface Forms

sobriety singular
sobrieties plural

Morphology

sobriety = sober (transparent) = sober + ity

Formed by the adjective 'sober' + '-ity' to denote the state of being sober (not drinking); the derivation is direct and clear.

Etymology

Sobriety comes from the same root as sober and the Latin word sobrius meaning 'not drunk'. So sobriety is the state of being 'not drunk'.