noun. The act of inebriating, or the state of being inebriated; drunkenness; hence, extravagant exhilaration of any kind; mental or moral intoxication.

noun. The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success.

noun. The state or characteristic of drunkenness.

noun. habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms

noun. a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol

"The book strives to recreate the "unearthly inebriation" of reading Nabokov, at times by direct quotation, at times by imitation of his style – as when Zanganeh describes Speak, Memory as "no hollow monument to the past, no search into its designs, unseen at first sight, yet stippled, ever so lightly, in the texture of time"."

inebriate  inebriated  

drug addiction  white plague  

catalepsy  gainsaying  gormandism  incumbency  intoxication  

Dutch courage  a high  befuddlement  besottedness  drunkenness