Meaning: Sobriety
Usefulness: 3 (It's an old alternative for sobriety; I just like the sound of it. "I'm rather looking forward to a month of soberty, and so is my liver." "Perhaps if you indulged in soberty more often, your memory would improve.")
Logofascination: 2 (The OED has citations from 1303 to 1483, and the more boring sobriety isn't attested until 1401, after which it seems to dominate. Sobriety is closer to the Latin root, sobrius, which is not ebrius, not drunk. Ebrius is of course the root of inebriated and the rather lovely ebriety. I quite like the fact that one is, etymologically, in a state of being drunk or not-drunk, drunk therefore being the default.)
Usefulness: 3 (It's an old alternative for sobriety; I just like the sound of it. "I'm rather looking forward to a month of soberty, and so is my liver." "Perhaps if you indulged in soberty more often, your memory would improve.")
Logofascination: 2 (The OED has citations from 1303 to 1483, and the more boring sobriety isn't attested until 1401, after which it seems to dominate. Sobriety is closer to the Latin root, sobrius, which is not ebrius, not drunk. Ebrius is of course the root of inebriated and the rather lovely ebriety. I quite like the fact that one is, etymologically, in a state of being drunk or not-drunk, drunk therefore being the default.)
