intemperance | Definition of intemperance

Synonyms and Antonyms of intemperance

1 habitual or excessive drinking of intoxicants

in his harangue on the perils of drink, the prohibitionist claimed that intemperance has always been the number one destroyer of marriages

Synonyms of intemperance

alcoholism, drunkenness, insobriety, intemperateness

Words Related to intemperance

inebriety, intoxication

bibulousness, dipsomania

debauchery, dissoluteness

Near Antonyms of intemperance

abstention, abstinence, teetotalism

Antonyms of intemperance

sobriety, temperance

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

there's a wearisome intemperance in his verbal attacks against any and all who dare to disagree with him

Synonyms of intemperance

excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, immoderacy, immoderation, insobriety, intemperateness, nimiety

Words Related to intemperance

extravagance, prodigality

extremism, irrationality, radicalism, unreasonableness

Antonyms of intemperance

moderateness, moderation, temperance, temperateness