Exact Match:
- moderation
- the action of lessening in severity or intensity; "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions"
- quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes
Synonyms:
- abnegation,
- boundary,
- bounds,
- center,
- compromise,
- confinement,
- constraint,
- continence,
- denial,
- discipline,
- fence,
- forbearance,
- frugality,
- golden mean,
- gravity,
- half measures,
- half-and-half measures,
- halfway measures,
- happy medium,
- limit,
- limitation,
- mean,
- measure,
- medium,
- middle course,
- middle ground,
- middle way,
- moderateness,
- neutral ground,
- nothing in excess,
- prescription,
- proscription,
- qualification,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- restrain,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- sedateness,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-discipline,
- self-mastery,
- self-restraint,
- seriousness,
- sober-mindedness,
- soberness,
- sobersidedness,
- sobersides,
- sobriety,
- solemnity,
- sophrosyne,
- staidness,
- temperance,
- temperateness,
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