sobriety | Definition of sobriety

Synonyms and Antonyms of sobriety

1 a mental state free of jesting or trifling

an abrupt sobriety fell over the group when they heard the news

Synonyms of sobriety

earnest, earnestness, graveness, gravity, intentness, serious-mindedness, seriousness, soberness, solemnity, solemnness, staidness

Words Related to sobriety

gravitas, humorlessness

decisiveness, deliberation, determination, firmness, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolve

absorption, attentiveness, concentration, engrossment, enthrallment, immersion, intensity

Near Antonyms of sobriety

lightness, shallowness, superficiality

dalliance, dilettantism

cheerfulness, gaiety (also gayety), glee, high-spiritedness, merriment, mirth

Antonyms of sobriety

facetiousness, flightiness, flippancy, frivolity, frivolousness, levity, lightheartedness, lightness, play, unseriousness

2 voluntary restraint in the satisfaction of one's appetites

although she can afford to wear anything, she practices a sartorial sobriety that bespeaks class and taste

Synonyms of sobriety

abstinence, continence, self-abnegation, self-denial, temperance

Words Related to sobriety

control, forbearance, restraint

discipline, self-command, self-control, self-discipline, self-mastery

asceticism, austerity

Near Antonyms of sobriety

gluttony, greed, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity

hedonism, sensuality, sybaritism

Antonyms of sobriety

self-indulgence