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IMMODERATENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does immoderateness mean?
• IMMODERATENESS (noun)
The noun IMMODERATENESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation
Familiarity information: IMMODERATENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
immoderateness; immoderation
Hypernyms ("immoderateness" is a kind of...):
degree; grade; level (a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "immoderateness"):
excess; excessiveness; inordinateness (immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits)
Derivation:
immoderate (beyond reasonable limits)
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