Entry Word: temperance

Function: noun

Meaning: an avoidance of extremes in oneʼs actions, beliefs, or habits <Mr. Grindell attributes his ripe old age to temperance in all things, especially eating and drinking>

Synonyms moderateness, moderation, temperateness

Related Words constraint, control, discipline, restraint, self-control, self-discipline; asceticism, austerity, frugality, mortification, sacrifice, self-denial, self-deprivation; abnegation, abstention, avoidance, eschewal, forbearance; modesty, rationality, reasonableness; abstinence, soberness, sobriety

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

Antonyms excessiveness, immoderacy, intemperance, intemperateness