Category:Sobriety

So*bri"e*ty, n. Etym: [l. sobrietas: cf. F. sobriété. See sober.]

1. Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous Liquors; as, a man of sobriety. Public sobriety is a relative duty. Blackstone.

2. Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or Overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity; seriousness; as, The sobriety of riper years. Mirth makes them not mad, nor sobriety sad. Denham.

Syn. -- soberness; temperance; abstinence; abstemiousness; moderation; Regularity; steadness; calmness; coolness; sober-mindeness; Sedateness; staidness; gravity; seriousness; solemnity.