Temperance

Noun

 * 1) Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.
 * 2) * 1877, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
 * On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion.
 * 1) Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.
 * 2)  State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
 * 3) Tarot card.

Antonyms

 * intemperance

Related terms

 * temper
 * temperament
 * temperamental
 * temperature

Derived terms

 * American Temperance Society (ATS)
 * Loyal Temperance Legion (LTL)
 * temperance association
 * temperance bar
 * temperance chartism
 * temperance chartist
 * Temperance Colonization Society
 * temperance colony
 * temperance education
 * temperance group
 * temperance hotel
 * temperance journal
 * temperance lobby
 * temperance magazine
 * temperance meeting
 * temperance movement
 * temperance movement zealot
 * temperance norm
 * temperance organisation, temperance organization
 * temperance paper
 * temperance pledge
 * temperance reading room
 * temperance society
 * temperance writer
 * Toronto Temperance Society (TTS)
 * Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
 * Youth Temperance Council (YTC)

Verbs for Temperance
advocate—; campaign for—; commend—; exhort—; laud—; pledge—; promote—; — abstains; —allays; —alleviates; —chastens; —composes; —denies; —forbears; —mitigates; —moderates; —refrains; —sobers; — softens; —spares; —tranquillizes.

Thesaurus
Rechabitism, abnegation, abstemiousness, abstinence, asceticism, austerity, calm, calmness, cardinal virtues, charity, conservatism, constraint, continence, control, cool, dispassion, eschewal, evenness, faith, forbearance, forgoing, fortitude, gentleness, golden mean, gravity, happy medium, hope, impartiality, judiciousness, juste-milieu, justice, lenity, love, measure, meden agan, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, mortification, natural virtues, neutrality, nonviolence, nothing in excess, pacifism, prohibition, prudence, reasonableness, refrainment, repose, restraint, sacrifice, sedateness, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-restraint, serenity, seriousness, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, sobriety, solemnity, stability, staidness, steadiness, supernatural virtues, teetotalism, temperateness, theological virtues, tranquillity, undrunkenness, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, uninebriatedness, unintoxicatedness, via media

Etymology
See etymology of "to temper".

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 戒酒
 * Dutch: matiging
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:


 * German: Mäßigung
 * Japanese: 禁酒
 * Romanian: sobrietate, cumpătare
 * Russian: умеренность, сдержанность,  трезвенность


 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:


 * German: Mäßigung, Enthaltsamkeit, Mäßigkeit im Alkoholgenuss, Temperenz


 * Catalan: la temperança
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch: gematigheid
 * French: la tempérance
 * German: die Mäßigkeit
 * Hungarian: megfontoltság


 * Italian: la temperanza
 * Japanese: 節制
 * Korean: 절제
 * Polish: umiarkowanie, powściągliwość
 * Portuguese: a temperança
 * Spanish: la templanza