intemperance

intemperance
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Lack of moderation
Nouns
1. intemperance, indulgence, overindulgence, high living, self-indulgence; voluptuousness; epicurism, epicureanism, sybaritism (see gluttony); drunkenness, drinking; prodigality (see waste); dissipation, licentiousness, debauchery; crapulence, incontinence; excess, too much; sensuality, animalism, carnality; pleasure, luxury, luxuriousness; lap of pleasure or luxury. See drugs.
2. revel[s], revelry; debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgy.
3. drunkard, addict, voluptuary, sybarite, glutton, rake, roué, gourmand, sensualist, etc.
Verbs — indulge, overindulge, exceed; live well or high, live on the fat of the land; wallow, plunge into dissipation; revel, rake, live hard, cut loose, run riot, sow one's wild oats; slake one's appetite or thirst; swill; pamper; burn the candle at both ends.
Adjectives — intemperate, inabstinent; sensual, self-indulgent; voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, dissipated, rakish, fast, debauched; brutish; crapulous, crapulent, swinish, piggish; epicurean, sybaritical; bred in the lap of luxury; indulged, pampered, full-fed, prodigal. Slang, off the wagon.
Adverbs — intemperately, immoderately, to excess, excessively, without restraint. Slang, up the butt or yingyang.
Quotations — The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom (William Blake), Nothing succeeds like excess (Oscar Wilde), Can one desire too much of a good thing? (Shakespeare), Too much of a good thing can be wonderful (Mae West), Never... murder a man who is committing suicide (Woodrow Wilson), Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die (Bible).
Antonyms, see moderation.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. insobriety, immoderation, alcoholism; see drunkenness .
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun Immoderate indulgence, as in food or drink: excess, overindulgence, surfeit. See EXCESS.

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