About The Word Intemperance
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Intemperance
| Intemperance Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Intemperance?
[n] immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites
[n] consumption of alcoholic drinks
[n] the quality of being intemperate
Synonyms | Synonyms for Intemperance: intemperateness |
self-indulgence
Related Terms | Find terms related to Intemperance: abandon |
abandonment |
bacchanalianism |
Bacchus |
bibaciousness |
bibacity |
bibulosity |
bibulousness |
boundlessness |
carpe diem |
conspicuous consumption |
crapulence |
crapulency |
crapulousness |
debauchery |
Dionysus |
dissipation |
drunkenness |
edacity |
egregiousness |
enormousness |
exaggeration |
excess |
excessiveness |
exorbitance |
exorbitancy |
extravagance |
extravagancy |
extreme |
extremes |
extremism |
extremity |
fabulousness |
giantism |
gigantism |
gluttonousness |
gluttony |
greed |
greediness |
gulosity |
hoggishness |
hyperbole |
hyperphagia |
hypertrophy |
immoderacy |
immoderateness |
immoderation |
incontinence |
indiscipline |
inordinacy |
inordinance |
inordinateness |
insatiability |
insobriety |
intemperateness |
irrepressibility |
lavishness |
laxness |
leaking purse |
licentiousness |
loose purse strings |
monstrousness |
nimiety |
noncoercion |
nonintimidation |
omnivorousness |
outrageousness |
overdevelopment |
overeating |
overgenerosity |
overgenerousness |
overgreatness |
overgrowth |
overindulgence |
overlargeness |
overliberality |
overmuch |
overmuchness |
permissiveness |
piggishness |
polyphagia |
pound-foolishness |
prodigality |
profligacy |
profuseness |
profusion |
radicalism |
rapacity |
ravenousness |
reckless expenditure |
reckless spending |
riotousness |
serious drinking |
sottishness |
squandering |
squandermania |
swinish gluttony |
swinishness |
too much |
too-muchness |
unconscionableness |
unconstraint |
uncontinence |
uncontrol |
undueness |
uninhibitedness |
unreasonableness |
unreserve |
unrestrainedness |
unrestraint |
unruliness |
unstrictness |
voraciousness |
voracity |
wantonness |
waste |
wastefulness |
wildness
See Also | boozing |
crapulence |
dissipation |
dissolution |
drink |
drinking |
drunkenness |
gluttony |
jag |
licentiousness |
profligacy |
unrestraint |
vice
Intemperance In Webster's Dictionary
\In*tem"per*ance\, n. [F. intemp['e]rance, L.
intemperantia. See {In-} not, and {Temperance}.]
1. The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate;
excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate
indulgence of the appetites or passions.
God is in every creature; be cruel toward none,
neither abuse any by intemperance. --Jer. Taylor.
Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die,
By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more In
meats and drinks. --Milton.
2. Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in
alcoholic liquors.
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