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Definition of Intoxication
Intoxication

A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance.

The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk.

A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness.

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Intoxication Quotations

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich Nietzsche

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
Franz Kafka

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
Aristotle

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Lord Byron

Intoxication Translations

intoxication in German is Rausch
intoxication in Latin is crapula
intoxication in Norwegian is beruselse, rus
intoxication in Swedish is rus, berusning


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