bacchanalia
Wild drunken celebration
Bacchanalia were ancient Roman festivals honoring Bacchus, god of wine, marked by drunken revelry and orgiastic rites.
The word now refers to any wild, unrestrained celebration involving excessive drinking and uninhibited behavior: The office party devolved into a bacchanalia.
The singular bacchanal works similarly, and bacchanalian serves as the adjective: bacchanalian excess.
Unrestrained collective indulgence
- dissipationGradual loss or scattering
- carousalBoisterous drinking spree
- licentiousnessExcessive disregard for morality
- debaucheryExtreme indulgence in vices
intemperance · lasciviousness · dissoluteness · lewdness · promiscuity · libertinism · lechery · profligacy
Boisterous drinking spree
- merrymakingLively, cheerful celebration
- festivityCelebratory occasion or mood
- celebrationFestive event marking occasion
- frolicLighthearted playful movement
gaiety · jollity · conviviality · jubilation · revel · feasting · party · banquet
Yielding to desire
- pleasureHappy, satisfied feeling
- sensualityPursuit of physical pleasure
- gratificationPleasure from satisfying desires
- voluptuousnessSensual abundance and curves
sybaritism · epicurean · self-indulgence · decadence · luxury · opulence · gluttony · overindulgence
orgy
Unrestrained collective indulgence
- dissipationGradual loss or scattering
- carousalBoisterous drinking spree
- licentiousnessExcessive disregard for morality
debauchery · intemperance · lasciviousness · dissoluteness · lewdness · promiscuity · libertinism · lechery · profligacy · wantonness
carousing
Boisterous drinking spree
- merrymakingLively, cheerful celebration
- festivityCelebratory occasion or mood
- celebrationFestive event marking occasion
frolic · gaiety · jollity · conviviality · jubilation · revel · feasting · party · banquet · wassail
indulgence
Yielding to desire
- pleasureHappy, satisfied feeling
- sensualityPursuit of physical pleasure
- gratificationPleasure from satisfying desires
voluptuousness · sybaritism · epicurean · self-indulgence · decadence · luxury · opulence · gluttony · overindulgence · satiation
Dionysian
Ecstatically irrational and sensual
ceremony · procession · rites · pageant · spectacle · celebration · gathering · nocturnal · seasonal · harvest
Dionysus
Greek deity of wine
vine · ivy · ecstasy · frenzy · possession · mysticism · initiation · libations · ambrosia · nectar
- revelryrevelry, revel, festivity, festivities, celebration
- wine culturewine cellar, winery, vintage, grape, grapes
- vicevice, debauchery, prostitution, depravity, immorality
- ancient sexualityfertility rites, fertility cults, sacred marriage, sex magic, erotic art
- wine and drinkwine bottles, wine glasses, wine barrels, wine cellar, wine cellars
bacchanaliasobriety
Unimpaired mental state
temperance · abstinence · Quaker meeting · puritanism · moderation
bacchanaliaformal reception
Ceremonial social gathering
state dinner · ceremony · funeral · religious service · liturgy
bacchanaliaasceticism
Severe self-denial practice
austerity · self-denial · monasticism · fasting · mortification