'Intemperance' definitions:
Definition of 'intemperance'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of being intemperate [ant: moderation, temperance]
noun
Consumption of alcoholic drinks [syn: intemperance, intemperateness]
noun
Excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence; "the intemperance of their language" [syn: intemperance, intemperateness, self-indulgence]
Definition of 'Intemperance'
From: GCIDE
- Intemperance \In*tem"per*ance\, n. [F. intemp['e]rance, L. intemperantia. See In- not, and Temperance.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate indulgence of the appetites or passions. [1913 Webster]
- God is in every creature; be cruel toward none, neither abuse any by intemperance. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die, By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more In meats and drinks. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in alcoholic liquors. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'intemperance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- abandonment,
- bacchanalianism,
- Bacchus,
- bibaciousness,
- bibacity,
- bibulosity,
- bibulousness,
- boundlessness,
- carpe diem,
- conspicuous consumption,
- crapulence,
- crapulency,
- crapulousness,
- debauchery,
- Dionysus,
- dissipation,
- drunkenness,
- edacity,
- egregiousness,
- enormousness,
- exaggeration,
- excess,
- excessiveness,
- exorbitance,
- exorbitancy,
- extravagance,
- extravagancy,
- extreme,
- extremes,
- extremism,
- extremity,
- fabulousness,
- giantism,
- gigantism,
- gluttonousness,
- gluttony,
- greed,
- greediness,
- gulosity,
- hoggishness,
- hyperbole,
- hyperphagia,
- hypertrophy,
- immoderacy,
- immoderateness,
- immoderation,
- incontinence,
- indiscipline,
- inordinacy,
- inordinance,
- inordinateness,
- insatiability,
- insobriety,
- intemperateness,
- irrepressibility,
- lavishness,
- laxness,
- leaking purse,
- licentiousness,
- loose purse strings,
- monstrousness,
- nimiety,
- noncoercion,
- nonintimidation,
- omnivorousness,
- outrageousness,
- overdevelopment,
- overeating,
- overgenerosity,
- overgenerousness,
- overgreatness,
- overgrowth,
- overindulgence,
- overlargeness,
- overliberality,
- overmuch,
- overmuchness,
- permissiveness,
- piggishness,
- polyphagia,
- pound-foolishness,
- prodigality,
- profligacy,
- profuseness,
- profusion,
- radicalism,
- rapacity,
- ravenousness,
- reckless expenditure,
- reckless spending,
- riotousness,
- serious drinking,
- sottishness,
- squandering,
- squandermania,
- swinish gluttony,
- swinishness,
- too much,
- too-muchness,
- unconscionableness,
- unconstraint,
- uncontinence,
- uncontrol,
- undueness,
- uninhibitedness,
- unreasonableness,
- unreserve,
- unrestrainedness,
- unrestraint,
- unruliness,
- unstrictness,
- voraciousness,
- voracity,
- wantonness,
- waste,
- wastefulness,
- wildness