intoxication
noun
inebriation; drunkenness.
self-intoxication
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a word derived from
intoxication.
Example Sentences
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Since the time when it had been bestowed upon him, he lived for a great part of the day in a kind of dizzy self-intoxication.
From The Mantle and Other Stories by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
The look did indeed deepen as it rested on him, for even in that moment of self-intoxication Lily felt the quicker beat of life that his nearness always produced.
From House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The warm-hearted and melancholy child must needs undergo this second severe test, and he was destined to come out from it in a state of self-intoxication, a bewilderment of dreams and ideas.
From Honore de Balzac by Frederic Taber Cooper
But in the midst of the whirl of self-intoxication, he thought with a shudder of bedtime, knowing he should not close his eyes the whole night.
From Atlantis by Adele Szold Seltzer
