'Moderation' definitions:
Definition of 'moderation'
(from WordNet)
noun
Quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes [syn: moderation, moderateness] [ant: immoderateness, immoderation]
noun
noun
The trait of avoiding excesses [syn: temperance, moderation] [ant: intemperance]
noun
The action of lessening in severity or intensity; "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions" [syn: moderation, mitigation]
Definition of 'Moderation'
From: GCIDE
- Moderation \Mod`er*a"tion\, n. [L. moderatio: cf. F. mod['e]ration.]
- 1. The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The state or quality of being mmoderate. [1913 Webster]
- In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear adversity with moderation. [1913 Webster]
- The calm and judicious moderation of Orange. --Motley. [1913 Webster]
- 4. pl. The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'moderation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnegation,
- boundary,
- bounds,
- center,
- compromise,
- confinement,
- constraint,
- continence,
- denial,
- discipline,
- fence,
- forbearance,
- frugality,
- golden mean,
- gravity,
- half measures,
- half-and-half measures,
- halfway measures,
- happy medium,
- limit,
- limitation,
- mean,
- measure,
- medium,
- middle course,
- middle ground,
- middle way,
- moderateness,
- neutral ground,
- nothing in excess,
- prescription,
- proscription,
- qualification,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- restrain,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- sedateness,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-discipline,
- self-mastery,
- self-restraint,
- seriousness,
- sober-mindedness,
- soberness,
- sobersidedness,
- sobersides,
- sobriety,
- solemnity,
- sophrosyne,
- staidness,
- temperance,
- temperateness,
- via media