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intemperateness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of intemperateness

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

  • a talk show that seems to select political pundits mostly for their exhibitionistic intemperateness
Synonyms of intemperateness

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

extravagance, prodigality

extremism, irrationality, radicalism, unreasonableness
Antonyms of intemperateness

moderateness, moderation, temperance, temperateness

2 habitual or excessive drinking of intoxicants

  • as far as the townspeople are concerned, the students at the local college seem to be far more noteworthy for their intemperateness than for their intellectualism
Synonyms of intemperateness

alcoholism, drunkenness, insobriety, intemperance
Words Related to intemperateness

inebriety, intoxication

bibulousness, dipsomania

debauchery, dissoluteness
Near Antonyms of intemperateness

abstention, abstinence, teetotalism
Antonyms of intemperateness

sobriety, temperance

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