" intemperance "

1: habitual or excessive drinking of intoxicants;

  * e.g., " ... in his harangue on the perils of drink, the prohibitionist claimed that intemperance has always been the number one destroyer of marriages "

•  Synonyms : 

•  alcoholism,

•  drunkenness,

•  insobriety,

•  intemperateness

•  Antonyms : 

•  sobriety,

•  temperance

2: a propensity for extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits;

  * e.g., " ... there's a wearisome intemperance in his verbal attacks against any and all who dare to disagree with him "

•  Synonyms : 

•  excess,

•  excessiveness,

•  exorbitance,

•  immoderacy,

•  immoderation,

•  insobriety,

•  intemperateness,

•  nimiety

•  Antonyms : 

•  moderateness,

•  moderation,

•  temperance,

•  temperateness