INTEMPERANCE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does intemperance mean? 

• INTEMPERANCE (noun)
  The noun INTEMPERANCE has 3 senses:

1. the quality of being intemperate

2. consumption of alcoholic drinks

3. excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence

  Familiarity information: INTEMPERANCE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTEMPERANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being intemperate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("intemperance" is a kind of...):

unrestraint (the quality of lacking restraint)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intemperance"):

gluttony (habitual eating to excess)

Antonym:

temperance (the trait of avoiding excesses)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Consumption of alcoholic drinks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

intemperance; intemperateness

Hypernyms ("intemperance" is a kind of...):

vice (a specific form of evildoing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intemperance"):

boozing; crapulence; drink; drinking; drunkenness (the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

intemperance; intemperateness; self-indulgence

Context example:

the intemperance of their language

Hypernyms ("intemperance" is a kind of...):

humoring; indulgence; indulging; pampering (the act of indulging or gratifying a desire)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intemperance"):

fling; spree (a brief indulgence of your impulses)

dissipation; dissolution; licentiousness; looseness; profligacy (dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure)

jag (a bout of drinking or drug taking)

 Context examples 

To clear up which, I endeavoured to give some ideas of the desire of power and riches; of the terrible effects of lust, intemperance, malice, and envy.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But, in order to feed the luxury and intemperance of the males, and the vanity of the females, we sent away the greatest part of our necessary things to other countries, whence, in return, we brought the materials of diseases, folly, and vice, to spend among ourselves.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)