Intemperance

Quick meaning: Intemperance is a noun meaning Lack of moderation or temperance; excess.

Meaning

Lack of moderation or temperance; excess.

More Meanings

1. Drunkenness or gluttony.

Example Sentences

How can we marvel that the constitution thus disposed to intemperance finds the stimulus of drink indispensable?

Raffles proved more unmanageable than he had shown himself to be in his former appearances, his chronic state of mental restlessness, the growing effect of habitual intemperance, quickly shaking off every impression from what was said to him.

As I supported him towards his lodgings I could see that he was not only suffering from the effects of a recent debauch, but that a long course of intemperance had affected his nerves and his brain. […] He rambled in his speech, too, in a manner which suggested the delirium of disease rather than the talk of a drunkard.

They deserved the enmity of the Pagans; and some of them might deserve the reproaches of avarice and intemperance; of avarice, which they gratified with holy plunder, and of intemperance, which they indulged at the expense of the people, who foolishly admired their tattered garments, loud psalmody, and artificial paleness.

Word Forms

• intemperances
• intemperaunce
• intemperancy

Synonyms for intemperance

Depending on context, synonyms include self-indulgence, intemperateness.

Antonyms for intemperance

Common opposites include temperance, moderation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include intemperateness, self-indulgence, acrasia, crapulence, excessiveness, license.

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