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moderation

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of moderation

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

the kind of person who does everything in moderation

Synonyms of moderation

moderateness, temperance, temperateness

Words Related to moderation

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

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

abnegation, abstention, avoidance, eschewal, forbearance

rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibility, sensibleness

abstinence, soberness, sobriety

Near Antonyms of moderation

unconstraint, unrestraint

extremism, radicalness

irrationality, unreasonableness

Antonyms of moderation

excessiveness, immoderacy, intemperance, intemperateness

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