The phrase "a drunkenness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the state or condition of being drunk, often in a more abstract or literary context.
Example: "The party descended into a drunkenness that blurred the lines between reality and fantasy."
Alternatives: "an intoxication" or "a state of inebriation."
A sudden sense of lightness filled me, a drunkenness I had never experienced before.
The jury has heard that the 29-year-old estimated he was seven out of 10 on a drunkenness scale.
"The wealth effect is just starting in Asia," notes Gerald Celente of the Trends Research Institute, "and with newfound wealth comes a drunkenness of invincibility".
Her critics claim that she went too far – out of a "drunkenness of power", as Vincent Noce told me in Paris.
Lined up on the Newcastle side of the river are a drunkenness of recent postmodern follies: the cartoon-like law courts, corny new offices boasting ski-slope or wave-like roofs, a gimcrack commercial hulk looking like a refugee from Ceausescu's Bucharest, and rows of brand new rhubarb-and-custard-coloured "luxury" flats for young professionals.
September: Rodman is briefly jailed on a drunkenness report, after witnesses say his boat was being driven erratically off Newport Beach.
Products include a never-ending pencil, French washing fluid, British pulls, liquid lightning, Chinese cement, crystal blue soap, a secret cure for drunkenness, an almanac, a storm detector, and others.
MOSCOW — A pilot's drunkenness was a contributing cause of a commercial airline crash in Russia in 2008, Russian prosecutors said Monday, reaching a conclusion extraordinarily rare in airline crash investigations.
It goeth so unquietly and staggering, with a natural drunkenness.
There was some tension, over the food, a little drunkenness maybe, but that was about it for excitement.
