Antonyms for immoderation
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : ih-mod-uh-rey-shuh n |
Phonetic Transcription : ɪˌmɒd əˈreɪ ʃən |
- abstention
- apathy
- austerity
- ban
- calmness
- care
- caution
- cowardice
- dearth
- deficiency
- deprivation
- disappointment
- disapproval
- disfavor
- disinterest
- dislike
- disregard
- dissatisfaction
- doubt
- economy
- fairness
- frugality
- frustration
- humility
- impartiality
- indifference
- insufficiency
- intolerance
- irresolution
- justice
- lack
- meekness
- misery
- moderation
- modesty
- need
- order
- peace
- peacefulness
- poverty
- privation
- prohibition
- providence
- reason
- refusal
- saving
- shortcoming
- sorrow
- temperance
- thrift
- thriftiness
- unenthusiasm
- unhappiness
- unselfishness
- upset
- want
- withholding
Definition of immoderation
Origin :- early 15c., from Latin immoderationem (nominative immoderatio) "want of moderation, excess," from immoderatus (see immoderate).
- As in indulgence : noun luxury; gratification
- As in license : noun abandon, indulgence
- As in luxury : noun great pleasure, indulgence
- As in intemperance : noun insobriety
- As in libertinism : noun license
- As in licentiousness : noun license
- As in prodigality : noun extravagance
- As in profligacy : noun extravagance
- As in profligacy : noun license
- As in wastefulness : noun extravagance
- As in excess : noun overindulgence in personal desires
- As in extravagance : noun indulgence; waste
- As in fanaticism : noun overenthusiasm
- Just eating him alone was eating pickled oysters in immoderation.
- Extract from : « The Idiot at Home » by John Kendrick Bangs
- She stopped her horse and laughed with the immoderation of a boy.
- Extract from : « Hope Hathaway » by Frances Parker
- To-day, for him who hath eyes to see, the marks of a like immoderation are upon our generation also.
- Extract from : « A Man's Value to Society » by Newell Dwight Hillis
- This immoderation of her clothes, the fright she was in—so nervous at first that she could hardly stand—became her very ill.
- Extract from : « The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay » by Maurice Hewlett
- But here it was done everywhere and at all hours and in all degrees of immoderation and vulgarity.
- Extract from : « Children of the Market Place » by Edgar Lee Masters
- In addition to the immoderation characterizing our life, how much have the fruits themselves lost in excellence?
- Extract from : « Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II » by Martin Luther
- I am making strenuous efforts to speak with immoderation of an "infallible institution."
- Extract from : « The Story of Joan of Arc » by M. M. Mangasarian
- The instant impulse did not permit himself to argue the immoderation of his care of her.
- Extract from : « The City of Delight » by Elizabeth Miller
Synonyms for immoderation
- abandonment
- absurdity
- affluence
- alcoholism
- allowance
- amenity
- anarchy
- animalism
- appeasement
- arbitrariness
- arrogance
- attention
- audacity
- babying
- bias
- bigotry
- bliss
- boldness
- coddling
- comfort
- complacency
- contumacy
- courtesy
- debauchery
- dedication
- delight
- devotion
- disorder
- dissipation
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- dogma
- drunkenness
- effrontery
- endurance
- enjoyment
- enthusiasm
- exaggeration
- excess
- exorbitance
- expenditure
- extravagance
- extravagancy
- extreme
- extremism
- extremity
- faction
- favor
- favoring
- folly
- fondling
- fondness
- forbearance
- forwardness
- frenzy
- frill
- fulfillment
- gluttony
- goodwill
- gratification
- gratifying
- hatred
- hedonism
- high living
- icing on the cake
- illiberality
- immoderacy
- immoderation
- impropriety
- improvidence
- incorrigibility
- indulgence
- infatuation
- injustice
- inordinateness
- intemperance
- intemperateness
- intolerance
- irresponsibility
- kindness
- kowtowing
- lavishness
- lawlessness
- laxity
- leisure
- lenience
- leniency
- libertinism
- licentiousness
- looseness
- luxuriousness
- luxury
- madness
- monomania
- obsessiveness
- obstinacy
- opulence
- outrageousness
- overdoing
- overindulgence
- overspending
- pampering
- partiality
- partisanship
- passion
- patience
- permissiveness
- petting
- placating
- pleasing
- prejudice
- preposterousness
- presumptuousness
- privilege
- prodigality
- profligacy
- profligateness
- profuseness
- profusion
- rage
- rarity
- recklessness
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- relaxedness
- richness
- satiation
- satisfaction
- saturnalia
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- service
- single-mindedness
- slackness
- splendor
- spoiling
- squander
- squandering
- stubbornness
- sumptuousness
- superfluity
- superstition
- temerity
- tenacity
- toadying
- tolerance
- toleration
- transport
- treat
- treating
- understanding
- unfairness
- unreasonableness
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- unthrift
- violence
- wantonness
- waste
- wastefulness
- well-being
- wildness
- willfulness
- zeal
- zealotry
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