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1 Translation result for temperance in Spanish

noun

temperance noun

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templanza, temperancia

Example sentences of
temperance noun

  • The minister preached about temperance.
  • my father attributes his ripe old age to temperance in all things, especially eating and drinking

Synonyms of
temperance noun

Detailed synonyms for temperance noun

Temperance, sobriety, abstinence, self-restraint significan autocontrol en la gratificación de los apetitos y deseos.
  • Temperance indica una moderación habitual y el uso de la discreción en cualquier actividad; en referencia al uso de bebidas embriagantes, no indica moderación sino abstención <temperance and moderation were once thought of as important middle-class virtues>.
    antonyms: excess, dissipation
  • Sobriety connota el evitar todo exceso, a menudo el exceso en la bebida que lleva a la embriaguez; puede asimismo connotar un carácter serio y el evitar cualquier ostentación <his mother's flamboyance was in sharp contrast to his father's sobriety>.
    antonyms: drunkenness, excitement, flamboyance
  • Abstinence indica una privación voluntaria <practiced sexual abstinence>.
    antonyms: self-indulgence, hedonism
  • Self-restraint connota control sobre la expresión de los deseos, los impulsos, las emociones o los pensamientos de uno <an impulsive teenager lacking in self-restraint>.
    antonyms: self-indulgence, extravagance

Reverse translation for temperance

templanza  - temperance, moderation, mildness (of weather) 
temperancia  - temperance 
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