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temperancenoun an avoidance of extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habitsmy father attributes his ripe old age to temperance in all things, especially eating and drinking moderateness, moderation, temperateness constraint, control, discipline, restraint, self-control, self-disciplinemiddle-of-the-roadismasceticism, austerity, frugality, mortification, sacrifice, self-command, self-containment, self-denial, self-masteryabnegation, abstention, avoidance, eschewal, forbearancerationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibility, sensiblenessabstinence, soberness, sobriety, teetotalism excessiveness, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, intemperance, intemperateness excess, superfluityextremeness, extremityunconstraint, unrestraintextremism, radicalnessirrationality, unreasonablenessinsobriety voluntary restraint in the satisfaction of one's appetitespractices a blue-blooded temperance that his parvenu neighbors will never understand abstinence, continence, self-abnegation, self-denial, sobriety control, forbearance, restraintdiscipline, self-command, self-control, self-discipline, self-masteryasceticism, austerity self-indulgence gluttony, greed, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracityhedonism, sensuality, sybaritism in the 14th century |