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intemperance
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of INTEMPERANCE
1
habitual or excessive drinking of intoxicants <in his harangue on the perils of drink, the prohibitionist claimed that intemperance has always been the number one destroyer of marriages>
Antonyms sobriety, temperance
2
a propensity for extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits <there's a wearisome intemperance in his verbal attacks against any and all who dare to disagree with him>
Synonyms excessiveness, exorbitance, immoderacy, immoderation, insobriety, intemperance, intemperateness, nimiety
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