Definition of Immoderation

1. Noun. The quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation.

Exact synonyms: Immoderateness
Generic synonyms: Degree, Grade, Level
Specialized synonyms: Excess, Excessiveness, Inordinateness
Derivative terms: Immoderate
Antonyms: Moderation

Definition of Immoderation

1. n. Want of moderation.

Definition of Immoderation

1. Noun. lack of moderation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Immoderation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Immoderation

immobilize
immobilized
immobilizer
immobilizers
immobilizes
immobilizing
immobilizing antibody
immobilon
immoble
immoderacies
immoderacy
immoderancy
immoderate
immoderately
immoderateness
immoderation (current term)
immoderations
immodest
immodesties
immodestly
immodesty
immolate
immolated
immolates
immolating
immolation
immolations
immolator
immolators
immoment

Literary usage of Immoderation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings by Joseph Hall (1837)
"Of the Danger of immoderation in matter of Judgment, and of the Remedy in general.—Lukewarmness to be avoided in Religion.—Zeal required in the matters of ..."

2. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"R. Presumption seems to imply a certain immoderation in hope. ... There may be presumption by immoderation in respect of both these hopes. ..."

3. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"The apostle said, let your moderation appear to all men, but your immoderation hath appeared to all men, to all nations about you, of all you papists, ..."

4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1840)
"The following passage exhibits at once the feeling and taste of the writer—the devotional feeling, the cultivated taste : " Surely there is no immoderation ..."

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