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 excessiveness, exorbitance, excess, immoderation, insobriety, intemperance, intemperateness, nimietyRelated Words extravagance, prodigality; extremism, irrationality, radicalism, unreasonablenessAntonyms moderateness, moderation, temperance, temperateness