Moderation

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of moderating or restraining; the process of tempering, lessening, or mitigating.
  • noun. The state or quality of being moderate or keeping a due mean between opposite extremes; freedom from excess; temperance; due restraint.
  • noun. Habitual slowness of thought, speech, or action; great deliberation.
  • noun. The act of presiding over, regulating, or directing as a moderator.
  • noun. plural In the University of Oxford, England, the first public examination for degrees.
  • noun. Synonyms Forbearance, equanimity, sobriety, self-restraint, mildness, composure, calmness.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.
  • noun. The state or quality of being mmoderate.
  • noun. Calmness of mind; equanimity.
  • noun. The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state or quality of being moderate; avoidance of extremes
  • noun. An instance of moderating: bringing something away from extremes, especially in a beneficial way
  • noun. The process of moderating a discussion
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes
  • noun. a change for the better
  • noun. the action of lessening in severity or intensity
  • noun. the trait of avoiding excesses
  • Word Usage
    "At cdc. goc, "drinking in moderation is defined as having no more than one drink per day for women and no more than two drinks per day for men.""
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