Synonyms and Antonyms of temperance
- my father attributes his ripe old age to temperance in all things, especially eating and drinking
constraint, control, discipline, restraint, self-control, self-discipline
asceticism, austerity, frugality, mortification, sacrifice, self-command, self-containment, self-denial, self-mastery
abnegation, abstention, avoidance, eschewal, forbearance
rationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibility, sensibleness
- practices a blue-blooded temperance that his parvenu neighbors will never understand