soberversary

English

Etymology

Blend of sober +‎ anniversary

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˌsəʊ.bə(ɹ)ˈvɜːs(ə)ɹi/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌsoʊ.bɚˈvɝs(ə)ɹi/

Noun

soberversary (plural soberversaries)

The anniversary of a person's sobriety.
- 2017 December 28, Catherine Gray, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‎^[1], Octopus, →ISBN:
  And some of the golden ones even remember my soberversary and send me congratulations every year.
- 2019 December 31, Holly Whitaker, “What Do You Do for Fun If You Dont Drink?”, in Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol‎^[2], Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 312:
  The second man I dated was Luca, who I also found on Tinder; we went our sometime around my one-year soberversary. Again, I didn't tell this man that I didn't drink before we went out; I just didn't drink on our first date, and that led to an easy and natural conversation about sobriety.
- 2020 October 1, Sue Woolley, One Foot in Front of the Other: The most heartwarming and life-affirming story you'll read all year . . .‎^[3], Headline, →ISBN:
  She checked in to the sobriety group, remembering belatedly that his was her two-month soberversary. She posted: Yay! It's my two-month soberversary today. I celebrated by going for a lovely walk on the Malvern Hills, then doing some writing. I really think I can do this!
- 2021 January 14, Millie Gooch, The Sober Girl Society Handbook: An empowering guide to living hangover free‎^[4], Random House, →ISBN:
  Your Soberversary A very little-known perk of sobriety is that you get to add a whole new celebration to the calendar – your sober anniversary!
- 2021 February 4, Stylist Magazine, Life Lessons On Friendship: 13 Honest Tales of the Most Important Relationships of Our Lives‎^[5], Penguin UK, →ISBN:
  The few who really got it, who remembered my soberversary, who […]
- 2021 June 10, Catherine Gray, Sunshine Warm Sober: The unexpected joy of being sober – forever‎^[6], Octopus, →ISBN:
  the month of my seventh soberversary. And guess how long credit history is stored for, in the UK? Seven years. It felt like fiscal serendipity at its finest.
- 2022 January 4, Nicole Cox Murray, Tammie Cox, Don't Drink Like My Sister: The Sober Sisters Guide to Leveling up and Living Your Best Life--Alcohol-Free‎^[7], Balboa Press, →ISBN:
  Soberversary: anniversary of a person's sobriety.
- 2022 December 8, Simon Chapple, edited by Lois Badey, Rock Bottom and Rising: 21 Inspiring Stories of Finding Freedom from Alcohol‎^[8], John Murray Press, →ISBN:
  I count 4 September as my ‘soberversary’ because I didn't drink from the 3 September. In this 24-hour period, I decided that was it. I was done with alcohol.
- 2023 September 12, Kristi Coulter, Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career‎^[9], Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
  My second soberversary falls at the end of our first week in Snoqualmie. I sit at the window that morning with my coffee and laptop open to an empty Facebook draft, wondering if I'm about to self-destruct.