Dictionary Definition
temperance
Noun
1 the trait of avoiding excesses [syn: moderation] [ant: intemperance]
2 abstaining from excess [syn: sobriety]
3 the act of tempering
User Contributed Dictionary
Noun
- Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.
- Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.
- State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
Antonyms
Translations
habitual moderation
- Finnish: kohtuus, itsehillintä, raittius
- French: Sobriété
- German: Mäßigung
moderation of passion
- Finnish: itsehillintä, maltti, tyyneys
- French: Sobriété
- German: Mäßigung
Related terms
Extensive Definition
- Temperance (virtue), the practice of moderation
- Temperance movement, movement to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed
- Temperance bar, bars of the temperance movement opposed to alcohol
- Temperance (group), Canadian pop-dance musical group
- Temperance (Tarot card), a Major Arcana Tarot card
- Temperance, an album by Astrud Gilberto
- Temperance, Michigan, a community in the United States
- The Temperance River, in Minnesota
- Temperance Brennan, a character by Kathy Reichs
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Rechabitism, abnegation, abstemiousness, abstinence, asceticism, austerity, calm, calmness, cardinal virtues,
charity, conservatism, constraint, continence, control, cool, dispassion, eschewal, evenness, faith, forbearance, forgoing, fortitude, gentleness, golden mean,
gravity, happy medium,
hope, impartiality, judiciousness,
juste-milieu, justice,
lenity, love, measure, meden agan, middle way,
mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, mortification, natural
virtues, neutrality,
nonviolence, nothing
in excess, pacifism,
prohibition,
prudence, reasonableness, refrainment, repose, restraint, sacrifice, sedateness, self-abnegation,
self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-restraint,
serenity, seriousness,
sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, sobriety, solemnity, stability, staidness, steadiness, supernatural
virtues, teetotalism, temperateness, theological
virtues, tranquillity, undrunkenness, unexcessiveness,
unextravagance,
unextremeness,
uninebriatedness,
unintoxicatedness, via
media