intemperance

intemperance
    n 1: the quality of being intemperate [ant: {moderation},
         {temperance}]
    2: consumption of alcoholic drinks [syn: {intemperance},
       {intemperateness}]
    3: excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily
       appetites, especially in passion or indulgence; "the
       intemperance of their language" [syn: {intemperance},
       {intemperateness}, {self-indulgence}]
    

Intemperance \In*tem"per*ance\, n. [F. intemp['e]rance, L.
   intemperantia. See {In-} not, and {Temperance}.]
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   1. The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate;
      excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate
      indulgence of the appetites or passions.
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            God is in every creature; be cruel toward none,
            neither abuse any by intemperance.    --Jer. Taylor.
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            Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die,
            By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more
            In meats and drinks.                  --Milton.
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   2. Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in
      alcoholic liquors.
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118 Moby Thesaurus words for "intemperance":
      Bacchus, Dionysus, abandon, abandonment, bacchanalianism,
      bibaciousness, bibacity, bibulosity, bibulousness, boundlessness,
      carpe diem, conspicuous consumption, crapulence, crapulency,
      crapulousness, debauchery, dissipation, drunkenness, edacity,
      egregiousness, enormousness, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness,
      exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme,
      extremes, extremism, extremity, fabulousness, giantism, gigantism,
      gluttonousness, gluttony, greed, greediness, gulosity, hoggishness,
      hyperbole, hyperphagia, hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness,
      immoderation, incontinence, indiscipline, inordinacy, inordinance,
      inordinateness, insatiability, insobriety, intemperateness,
      irrepressibility, lavishness, laxness, leaking purse,
      licentiousness, loose purse strings, monstrousness, nimiety,
      noncoercion, nonintimidation, omnivorousness, outrageousness,
      overdevelopment, overeating, overgenerosity, overgenerousness,
      overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness,
      overliberality, overmuch, overmuchness, permissiveness,
      piggishness, polyphagia, pound-foolishness, prodigality,
      profligacy, profuseness, profusion, radicalism, rapacity,
      ravenousness, reckless expenditure, reckless spending, riotousness,
      serious drinking, sottishness, squandering, squandermania,
      swinish gluttony, swinishness, too much, too-muchness,
      unconscionableness, unconstraint, uncontinence, uncontrol,
      undueness, uninhibitedness, unreasonableness, unreserve,
      unrestrainedness, unrestraint, unruliness, unstrictness,
      voraciousness, voracity, wantonness, waste, wastefulness,
      wildness