happy medium
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "happy medium":
abnegation, abstinence, average, balance, calm, calmness, center,
compromise, conservatism, constraint, continence, control, cool,
dispassion, evenness, fence, generality, gentleness, golden mean,
half measures, half-and-half measures, halfway measures,
impartiality, judiciousness, juste-milieu, lenity, mean,
meden agan, median, mediocrity, medium, middle, middle course,
middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state,
middle way, middle-of-the-road, midpoint, mildness, moderateness,
moderation, moderationism, neutral ground, neutrality, nonviolence,
norm, normal, nothing in excess, pacifism, par, prudence, repose,
restraint, rule, run, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial,
self-restraint, serenity, sobriety, stability, steadiness,
temperance, temperateness, tranquillity, unexcessiveness,
unextravagance, unextremeness, via media
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