Found 2 items, similar to moderation.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: moderation moderation n 1: quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes [syn: moderateness] [ant: immoderation] 2: a change for the better [syn: easing, relief] 3: the trait of avoiding excesses [syn: temperance] [ant: intemperance] 4: the action of lessening in severity or intensity; “the object being control or moderation of economic depressions”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Moderation Moderation \Mod`er*a"tion\, n. [L. moderatio: cf. F. mod['e]ration.] 1. The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint. [1913 Webster] 2. The state or quality of being mmoderate. [1913 Webster] In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. --Pope. [1913 Webster] 3. Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear adversity with moderation. [1913 Webster] The calm and judicious moderation of Orange. --Motley. [1913 Webster] 4. pl. The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods. [1913 Webster]