BACCHANALIANISM Synonyms

• revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party

• used of riotously drunken merrymaking

• a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event

• any joyous diversion

• the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual

• a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

• breaking up and scattering by dispersion

• dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure

• useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly

• a quantity much larger than is needed

• immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits

• the state of being more than full

• excessive indulgence

• more than is needed, desired, or required

• the quality of being intemperate

• consumption of alcoholic drinks

• excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence

• A lifestyle or pattern of behavior characterized by self-indulgence and lack of restraint, especially one involving sexual promiscuity and rejection of religious or other moral authority.

• a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity

• used of frenzied sexual activity

• used of riotously drunken merrymaking

• unrestrained merrymaking

• To make merry; to have a happy, lively time.

• To take delight (in something).

• A revel.