temperance

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Alternative forms

• temperaunce

Etymology

See etymology of "to temper".

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Noun

temperance (plural temperances)

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.
   • 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.

2. Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.
3. One of the seven heavenly virtues.
4. (obsolete) State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
5. (tarot) temperance; the fourteenth trump or major arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks.

Coordinate terms

• (virtue): chastity, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, humility

Antonyms

• intemperance
• gluttony

Related terms

• temper
• temperament
• temperamental
• temperature

Derived terms

terms derived from the noun temperance

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)

Translations

habitual moderation

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (of alcohol) 戒酒 (cmn) (jièjiǔ)

• Dutch: matiging (nl) f
• Finnish: kohtuus (fi), itsehillintä (fi), raittius (fi)
• French: sobriété (fr) f

• German: Mäßigung (de) f
• Japanese: 節制 (ja) (せっせい, sessei), 禁酒 (ja) (きんしゅ, kinshu)
• Romanian: sobrietate (ro) f, cumpătare (ro) f
• Russian: умеренность (ru) (umérennost') f , сдержанность (ru) (sdéržannost') f , трезвенность (ru) (trézvennost') f 

moderation of passion

• Finnish: itsehillintä (fi), maltti (fi), tyyneys (fi)
• French: sobriété (fr) f
• German: Mäßigung (de) f, Enthaltsamkeit (de) f, Mäßigkeit im Alkoholgenuss (de) f, Temperenz (de) f

• Japanese: 節制 (ja) (せっせい, sessei)

one of seven virtues

• Finnish: kohtuullisuus (fi)

state with regard to heat or cold — see temperature

Tarot card

• Catalan: temperança (ca)
• Czech: umění (cs), umírněnost (cs)
• Dutch: gematigheid (nl)
• Finnish: kohtuus (fi)
• French: tempérance (fr)
• German: Mäßigkeit (de)
• Hungarian: megfontoltság (hu)

• Italian: temperanza (it)
• Japanese: 節制 (ja) (せっせい, sessei)
• Korean: 절제 (ko)
• Polish: umiarkowanie (pl), powściągliwość (pl)
• Portuguese: temperança (pt)
• Spanish: templanza (es)

See also

assocciated terms

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