Antonyms for temperance
ˈtɛm pər əns, ˈtɛm prənstem·per·ance

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1. Temperancenoun

   Antonyms:
   gluttony, intemperance

2. temperancenoun

   Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.

   Antonyms:
   intemperance, gluttony

3. temperancenoun

   Antonyms:
   intemperance, gluttony

4. temperancenoun

   Antonyms:
   intemperance, gluttony

5. temperancenoun

   Antonyms:
   gluttony, intemperance

6. temperancenoun

   Antonyms:
   intemperance, gluttony

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1. temperance

   Abstinence from food commonly signifies going without; abstemiousness, partaking moderately; abstinence may be for a single occasion, abstemiousness is habitual moderation. Self-denial is giving up what one wishes; abstinence may be refraining from what one does not desire. Fasting is abstinence from food for a limited time, and generally for religious reasons. Sobriety and temperance signify maintaining a quiet, even temper by moderate indulgence in some things, complete abstinence from others. We speak of temperance in eating, but of abstinence from vice. Total abstinence has come to signify the entire abstaining from intoxicating liquors.

   Antonyms:
   drunkenness, excess, gluttony, greed, intemperance, intoxication, reveling, revelry, self-indulgence, sensuality, wantonness

   Synonyms:
   abstemiousness, abstinence, continence, fasting, frugality, moderation, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, sobriety

   Preposition:
   The negative side of virtue is abstinence from vice.

Matched Categories

1. • Abstinence
   • Combination
   • Natural Virtue
   • Restraint

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. temperance, moderationnoun

   the trait of avoiding excesses

   Antonyms:
   intemperance

   Synonyms:
   easing, mitigation, sobriety, relief, moderateness, moderation

2. sobriety, temperancenoun

   abstaining from excess

   Antonyms:
   intemperance

   Synonyms:
   sombreness, graveness, dryness, gravity, moderation, somberness, soberness, sobriety

3. temperancenoun

   the act of tempering

   Antonyms:
   intemperance

   Synonyms:
   sobriety, moderation

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1. temperancenoun

   Synonyms:
   sobriety, nephalism, moderation

How to use temperance in a sentence?

1. Robert E. Lee:

   My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

2. Thomas Aquinas:

   Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

3. Clive Staples Lewis:

   A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

4. Plato:

   Wisdom alone is the true and unalloyed coin for which we ought to exchange all things, for this and with this everything is bought and sold?fortitude, temperance, and justice; in a word, true virtue subsists with wisdom.

5. Sir Philip Sidney:

   The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

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