intemperateness

1. 1.

   consumption of alcoholic drinks

   Synonymsintemperance

   Broadervice

   Narrowerdrink
2. 2.

   excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence

   “the intemperance of their language”

   Synonymsintemperanceself-indulgence

   Broaderindulgence

   Narrowerspreeprofligacyjag

Other forms of intemperateness

plural

intemperatenesses·

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 intemperateness

What does intemperateness mean?

intemperateness means "consumption of alcoholic drinks". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in intemperateness?

intemperateness has 6 syllables: in-tem-pe-ra-te-ness. The stress falls on "ra".

What is another word for intemperateness?

Close synonyms include intemperance, intemperance, 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.

Is intemperateness a common word?

intemperateness 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.