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temperance

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of temperance

1 an avoidance of extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits
  • My father attributes his ripe old age to temperance in all things, especially eating and drinking.
Synonyms of temperance

moderateness, moderation, temperateness
Words Related to temperance

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 temperance

unconstraint, unrestraint

extremism, radicalness

irrationality, unreasonableness
Antonyms of temperance

excessiveness, immoderacy, intemperance, intemperateness
2 voluntary restraint in the satisfaction of one's appetites
  • He practices an old-fashioned temperance that his young neighbors will never understand.
Synonyms of temperance

abstinence, continence, self-denial, sobriety
Words Related to temperance

control, forbearance, restraint

discipline, self-command, self-control, self-discipline, self-mastery

asceticism, austerity
Near Antonyms of temperance

gluttony, greed, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity

hedonism, sensuality
Antonyms of temperance

self-indulgence

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