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Moderation

Moderation Meaning & Definition
Moderation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Moderation?

[n] the action of lessening in severity or intensity; "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions"
[n] the trait of avoiding excesses
[n] quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes
[n] a change for the better

Synonyms | Synonyms for Moderation: easing | moderateness | relief | temperance

Related Terms | Find terms related to Moderation: abnegation | boundary | bounds | center | compromise | confinement | constraint | continence | denial | discipline | fence | forbearance | frugality | golden mean | gravity | half measures | half-and-half measures | halfway measures | happy medium | limit | limitation | mean | measure | medium | middle course | middle ground | middle way | moderateness | neutral ground | nothing in excess | prescription | proscription | qualification | renouncement | renunciation | restrain | restraint | restriction | sedateness | self-control | self-denial | self-discipline | self-mastery | self-restraint | seriousness | sober-mindedness | soberness | sobersidedness | sobersides | sobriety | solemnity | sophrosyne | staidness | temperance | temperateness | via media

See Also | abatement | abstemiousness | alteration | breath of fresh air | change | control | decrease | degree | diminution | disembarrassment | golden mean | grade | level | modification | natural virtue | reasonableness | reduction | restraint | sobriety | step-down

Moderation In Webster's Dictionary

\Mod`er*a"tion\, n. [L. moderatio: cf. F. mod['e]ration.] 1. The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint. 2. The state or quality of being mmoderate. In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. --Pope. 3. Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear adversity with moderation. The calm and judicious moderation of Orange. --Motley. 4. pl. The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to {mods}.

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