abstemiousness

1. 1.

   restricted to bare necessities

   Broadermeagerness
2. 2.

   moderation in eating and drinking

   Broadertemperance

Other forms of abstemiousness

plural

abstemiousnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about abstemiousness

What does abstemiousness mean?

abstemiousness means "restricted to bare necessities". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in abstemiousness?

abstemiousness has 5 syllables: ab-ste-mi-ou-sness. The stress falls on "mi".

Is abstemiousness a common word?

abstemiousness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.