intemperance

Other forms of intemperance

plural

intemperances·

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 intemperance

What does intemperance mean?

intemperance means "the quality of being intemperate". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in intemperance?

intemperance has 4 syllables: in-tem-pe-rance. The stress falls on "tem".

What is another word for intemperance?

Close synonyms include intemperateness, intemperateness, self-indulgence. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of intemperance?

The recorded antonyms are temperance.

Is intemperance a common word?

intemperance 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.