Synonyms for Intemperance

Synonyms for "intemperance" (135 found)

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Closest matches (27)

abandon abandonment bacchanalianism bacchus bibaciousness bibacity bibulosity bibulousness boundlessnesscarpe diemconspicuous consumptioncrapulence crapulency crapulousness debauchery dionysus dissipation drunkenness edacity egregiousness

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enormousness exaggeration excess

Noun(4 words)

boozing dipsomania drunkenness exaggeration

Related words (67)

irrepressibility lavishness laxnessleaking purselicentiousnessloose purse stringsmonstrousness nimiety noncoercion nonintimidation omnivorousness outrageousness overdevelopment overeating overgenerosity overgenerousness overgreatness overgrowth overindulgence overlargeness

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overliberality overmuch overmuchness permissiveness piggishness polyphagia pound-foolishness prodigality profligacy profuseness profusion radicalism rapacity ravenousnessreckless expenditurereckless spendingriotousnessserious drinkingsottishness squandering squandermaniaswinish gluttonyswinishnesstoo muchtoo-muchness unconscionableness unconstraint uncontinence uncontrol undueness uninhibitedness unreasonableness unreserve unrestrainedness unrestraint unruliness unstrictness voraciousness voracity wantonness waste wastefulness wildness

Noun(4 words)

overindulgence rashness self-indulgence surfeits

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

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More general

8 entries

humoring humouring indulgence indulgingmoral failingpampering unrestraint vice

More specific

9 entries

alcoholic intoxicationbinge drinkingdrunkenness gluttonyhasty policy makingheated discourseovereatingpublic intoxicationranting

Collocations

6 entries

financial intemperancehabitual intemperanceintemperance in policyintemperance movementintemperate conductmoral intemperance

Inflections

1 entries

intemperances

Derivations

3 entries

intemperate intemperately intemperateness

Antonyms

1 entries

temperance

Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

His illness stems from his intemperance.

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Tom got drunk and drowned his sorrows in that one night of intemperance.

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The unutterable agony of the parents, the horror and confusion of all who were in the castle, the fury of contending passions between the friends of the different parties—passions augmented by previous intemperance—surpass description.

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Idleness, vice, and intemperance had done their miserable work, and the dead mother lay cold and still amid her wretched children.

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Intemperance