n. 25B6; noun
they were criticized for intemperance : OVERINDULGENCE, immoderation, excess, extravagance, prodigality, profligacy, lavishness; self-indulgence, self-gratification; debauchery, decadence, dissipation, dissolution.
he said intemperance was a disease : DRINKING, alcoholism, alcohol abuse, dipsomania; drunkenness, intoxication, inebriation, insobriety, tipsiness; formal inebriety; poetic/literary crapulence.