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immoderacy

immoderacy noun: the quality of being immoderate.

Noun

immoderacy (countable and uncountable, plural immoderacies)

  1. The quality of being immoderate.
    • Even in our sensual days, the strength of delight is in its seldomness or rarity, and sting in its satiety: mediocrity is its life, and immoderacy its confusionc. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the section)”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press...

Forms of immoderacy

pluralimmoderacies

Questions about immoderacy

What does immoderacy mean?
Immoderacy means the quality of being immoderate.
What part of speech is immoderacy?
Immoderacy is a noun.
What is the plural of immoderacy?
The plural of immoderacy is immoderacies.

Words near immoderacy in the dictionary

  1. immobilizes
  2. immobilizing
  3. immobilon
  4. immoble
  5. immoderacies
  6. immoderacy
  7. immoderancy
  8. immoderate
  9. immoderately
  10. immoderateness
  11. immoderation

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