intemperance

intemperance

noun

Definition of INTEMPERANCE

1

habitual or excessive drinking of intoxicants <in his harangue on the perils of drink, the prohibitionist claimed that intemperance has always been the number one destroyer of marriages>

Synonyms alcoholism, drunkenness, insobriety, intemperateness

Related Words inebriety, intoxication; bibulousness, dipsomania; debauchery, dissoluteness

Near Antonyms abstention, abstinence, teetotalism

Antonyms sobriety, temperance

2

a propensity for extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits <there's a wearisome intemperance in his verbal attacks against any and all who dare to disagree with him>

Synonyms excessiveness, exorbitance, immoderacy, immoderation, insobriety, intemperance, intemperateness, nimiety

Related Words extravagance, prodigality; extremism, irrationality, radicalism, unreasonableness

Antonyms moderateness, moderation, temperance, temperateness