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moderation

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Synonyms & Antonyms of moderation

an avoidance of extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits

the kind of person who does everything in moderation

Synonyms for moderation

moderateness,
temperance,
temperateness

Words Related to moderation

constraint,
control,
discipline,
restraint,
self-control,
self-discipline

middle-of-the-roadism

asceticism,
austerity,
frugality,
mortification,
sacrifice,
self-command,
self-containment,
self-denial,
self-mastery

abnegation,
abstention,
avoidance,
eschewal,
forbearance

rationality,
rationalness,
reasonability,
reasonableness,
sensibility,
sensibleness

abstinence,
soberness,
sobriety,
teetotalism

Near Antonyms for moderation

excess,
superfluity

extremeness,
extremity

unconstraint,
unrestraint

extremism,
radicalness

irrationality,
unreasonableness

insobriety

Antonyms for moderation

excessiveness,
immoderacy,
immoderateness,
immoderation,
intemperance,
intemperateness

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