the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion.
n. Severity of weather; inclemency.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The state of being intemperate; want of moderation; excessive indulgence: as, the intemperateness of appetite or passion.
n. Disturbance of atmospheric conditions; excess of heat or cold.
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n. consumption of alcoholic drinks
n. excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence
Word Usage
"Ms. Gornick reflects on the "raging intemperateness" of the era's feminist rhetoric—"marriage is an institution of oppression"; "love is rape"; "sleeping with the enemy"—and realizes now that reform wasn't the goal."