Word Meanings - ABSTEMIOUSNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABSTEMIOUSNESS)

• Sobriety
• Soberness
• temperance
• abstemiousness

Related words: (words related to ABSTEMIOUSNESS)

• SOBERNESS
  The quality or state of being sober.
• TEMPERANCE
  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,
• SOBRIETY
  1. Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety. Public sobriety is a relative duty. Blackstone. 2. Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness;
• ABSTEMIOUSNESS
  The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.
• INSOBRIETY
  Want of sobriety, moderation, or calmness; intemperance; drunkenness.
• DISTEMPERANCE
  Distemperature.
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• ATTEMPERANCE
  Temperance; attemperament. Chaucer.
• INTEMPERANCE
  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. God is in every creature; be cruel toward none, neither abuse any by intemperance. Jer.