immoderation
Lack of restraint
Immoderation is lack of restraint or excess—the quality of going beyond reasonable limits.
The word appears in formal or literary contexts, often as criticism of indulgence: His immoderation in eating and drinking ruined his health.
The opposite of moderation in all its senses.
Excessive consumption or enjoyment
- intemperanceHabitual lack of restraint
- surfeitExcessive quantity, often cloying
- gluttonyGreedy excess in consumption
- overconsumptionExcessive use of resources
extravagance · profligacy · wastefulness · squandering · dissipation · exorbitance · superabundance · overabundance
Moral decline through excess
- self-indulgenceExcessive yielding to desires
- pleasure-seekingPursuit of enjoyment
- sensualityPursuit of physical pleasure
- debaucheryExtreme indulgence in vices
libertinism · voluptuousness · epicureanism · sybaritism · gratification · self-gratification · luxuriousness · indulgence
Overstating beyond reality
- overstatementClaim beyond the facts
- hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
- overemphasisExcessive importance placed
- disproportionalityState of unequal ratios
superfluousness · redundancy · excess · overdose · overreach · overreaction · extremism · overshooting
Acting without forethought
- rashnessImprudent haste in action
- heedlessnessFailure to notice danger
- carelessnessInattention causing mistakes
- irresponsibilityFailure to meet obligations
foolhardiness · impetuosity · incautiousness · imprudence · temerity · brashness · audacity · throwing caution
overindulgence
Excessive consumption or enjoyment
- intemperanceHabitual lack of restraint
- surfeitExcessive quantity, often cloying
- gluttonyGreedy excess in consumption
overconsumption · extravagance · profligacy · wastefulness · squandering · dissipation · exorbitance · superabundance · overabundance · oversupply
decadence
Moral decline through excess
- self-indulgenceExcessive yielding to desires
- pleasure-seekingPursuit of enjoyment
- sensualityPursuit of physical pleasure
debauchery · libertinism · voluptuousness · epicureanism · sybaritism · gratification · self-gratification · luxuriousness · indulgence · bingeing
exaggeration
Overstating beyond reality
- overstatementClaim beyond the facts
- hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
- overemphasisExcessive importance placed
disproportionality · superfluousness · redundancy · excess · overdose · overreach · overreaction · extremism · overshooting · too far
impulsiveness
Acting without forethought
- rashnessImprudent haste in action
- heedlessnessFailure to notice danger
- carelessnessInattention causing mistakes
irresponsibility · foolhardiness · impetuosity · incautiousness · imprudence · temerity · brashness · audacity · throwing caution · thoughtlessness
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
- extremenessextreme, excess, overkill, intensity, overdose
- going too faroverdo, overstepping, crossing the line, overstep, cross the line
- excessesoverindulgence, intemperance, extravagance, gluttony, excess
- audacityboldness, brazenness, audacity, chutzpah, gall
- vicesgreed, envy, lust, gluttony, vanity
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Avoidance of excess
temperance · restraint · self-control · moderateness · temperateness
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Habitual moderation in behavior
self-mastery · virtue · asceticism · austerity · abstinence
moderation, moderate, immoderate, inordinate, inordinately, immoderately