moderation

moderation

noun

Definition of MODERATION

an avoidance of extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits <the kind of person who does everything in moderation>

Synonyms moderateness, moderation, temperateness

Related Words constraint, control, discipline, restraint, self-control, self-discipline; middle-of-the-roadism; asceticism, austerity, frugality, mortification, sacrifice, self-command, self-containment, self-denial, self-mastery; abnegation, abstention, avoidance, eschewal, forbearance; rationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibility, sensibleness; abstinence, soberness, sobriety, teetotalism

Near Antonyms excess, superfluity; extremeness, extremity; unconstraint, unrestraint; extremism, radicalness; irrationality, unreasonableness; insobriety

Antonyms excessiveness, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, intemperance, intemperateness