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excessiveness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of excessiveness

a propensity for extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits

  • the excessiveness for which decadent Rome has become famous in history
Synonyms of excessiveness

excess, exorbitance, immoderacy, immoderation, insobriety, intemperance, intemperateness, nimiety
Words Related to excessiveness

extravagance, prodigality

extremism, irrationality, radicalism, unreasonableness
Antonyms of excessiveness

moderateness, moderation, temperance, temperateness

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