Synonyms 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.

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

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

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

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1. temperance, moderationnoun

   the trait of avoiding excesses

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

   Antonyms:
   intemperance

2. sobriety, temperancenoun

   abstaining from excess

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

   Antonyms:
   intemperance

3. temperancenoun

   the act of tempering

   Synonyms:
   sobriety, moderation

   Antonyms:
   intemperance

Matched Categories

1. • Abstinence
   • Combination
   • Natural Virtue
   • Restraint

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1. temperancenoun

   Synonyms:
   moderation, sobriety, soberness, self-control

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1. temperancenoun

   Synonyms:
   sobriety, nephalism, moderation

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1. List of paraphrases for "temperance":

   temper

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1. 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.

2. Patrick Henry:

   Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of freemen. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.

3. Abraham Lincoln:

   Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

4. Thomas Aquinas:

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

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.