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immoderacy

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of immoderacy

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

  • the same immoderacy that caused him to become a drug addict later impelled him to embrace religious fanaticism
Synonyms of immoderacy

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

extravagance, prodigality

extremism, irrationality, radicalism, unreasonableness
Antonyms of immoderacy

moderateness, moderation, temperance, temperateness

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