Temperance


Synonyms for temperance
noun self-restraint; abstinence

control
stoicism
self-denial
measure
mortification
teetotalism
abstemiousness
continence
soberness
discretion

self-control
frugality
sobriety
restraint
sacrifice
prudence
prohibition
moderation
austerity
moderateness

constraint
forbearance
abnegation
conservatism
golden mean
happy medium
forgoing
moderatism
self-discipline
reasonableness

astringency
asceticism
eschewal
refrainment
self-deprivation
uninebriation
unintoxication

Antonyms for temperance

carelessness
agitation
rashness

permission
indulgence
intemperance

wildness
allowance
excess

Concept Thesaurus for word temperance
4. Moral practice
Synonyms – noun

temperance
forbearance
self-control (resolution) [more]
total abstinence
prohibition
Stoicism.
teetotaler
hydropot.

moderation
abnegation
frugality
abstinence
system of Pythagoras
vegetarian
abstainer

sobriety
self-denial
vegetarianism
abstemiousness
system of Cornaro
Pythagorean
Encratite

soberness.
self-restraint
teetotalism
Encratism
Pythagorism
gymnosophist.
fruitarian

Synonyms – verbs

be temperate
deny oneself

abstain
spare.

forbear
know when one has had enough.

refrain
take the pledge.

Synonyms – adjectives

temperate
sparing
measured (sufficient)

moderate
abstemious
Pythagorean

sober
abstinent
vegetarian

frugal
within compass
teetotal.

Synonyms – phrases
appetitus rationi obediant [Cic.]; l’abstenir pour jouir c’est l’epicurisme de la raison [Rousseau]; trahit sua quemque voluptas [Vergil].
Antonyms

intemperance

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