Synonyms of intemperateness

intemperateness

noun

1

as in excessiveness

a propensity for extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits

a talk show that seems to select political pundits mostly for their exhibitionistic intemperateness

Synonyms & Similar Words

• excessiveness
• excess
• immoderation
• intemperance
• extremism
• exorbitance
• insobriety
• immoderacy
• extravagance
• irrationality
• nimiety
• unreasonableness
• prodigality
• radicalism

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• moderation
• temperance
• moderateness
• temperateness

2

as in alcoholism

habitual or excessive drinking of intoxicants

as far as the townspeople are concerned, the students at the local college seem to be far more noteworthy for their intemperateness than for their intellectualism

Synonyms & Similar Words

• alcoholism
• intemperance
• drunkenness
• insobriety
• inebriety
• intoxication
• dissoluteness
• dipsomania
• bibulousness
• debauchery

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• temperance
• sobriety
• abstinence
• abstention
• teetotalism