Word Meanings - SOBRIETY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety. Public sobriety is a relative duty. Blackstone. 2. Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness;

Additional info about word: SOBRIETY

1. Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety. Public sobriety is a relative duty. Blackstone. 2. Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity; seriousness; as, the sobriety of riper years. Mirth makes them not mad, Nor sobriety sad. Denham. Syn. -- Soberness; temperance; abstinence; abstemiousness; moderation; regularity; steadness; calmness; coolness; sober-mindeness; sedateness; staidness; gravity; seriousness; solemnity.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SOBRIETY)

• Continence
• Abstinence
• selfcontrol
• refrain
• Chastity
• sobriety
• temperance
• Moderation
• Temperance
• frugality
• calmness
• sedateness
• mildness
• coolness
• deliberateness
• Modesty
• Sobriety
• diffidence
• bashfulness
• humility
• pure-mindedness

Related words: (words related to SOBRIETY)

• DIFFIDENCE
  1. The state of being diffident; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others. That affliction grew heavy upon me, and weighed me down even to a diffidence of God's mercy. Donne. 2. Distrust of one's self
• MILDNESS
  The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.
• REFRAINMENT
  Act of refraining.
• MODESTY
  1. The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit. 2. Natural delicacy
• BASHFULNESS
  The quality of being bashful. Syn. -- Bashfulness, Modesty, Diffidence, Shyness. Modesty arises from a low estimate of ourselves; bashfulness is an abashment or agitation of the spirits at coming into contact with others; diffidence is produced
• COOLNESS
  1. The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness. 2. Calm impudence; self-possession.
• CONTINENCE; CONTINENCY
  1. Self-restraint; self-command. He knew what to say; he knew also, when to leave off, -- a continence which is practiced by few writers. Dryden. 2. The restraint which a person imposes upon his desires and passions; the act or power of refraining
• HUMILITY
  1. The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness. Serving the Lord
• MODERATION
  The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods. (more info) 1. The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint. 2. The state or quality of being mmoderate. In moderation placing
• CALMNESS
  The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose. The gentle calmness of the flood. Denham. Hes calmness was the repose of conscious power. E. Everett. Syn. -- Quietness; quietude; stillness; tranquillity; serenity; repose;
• FRUGALITY
  1. The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance. Frugality is founded on the
• CHASTITY
  Chasteness. (more info) 1. The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse. She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity. T. Carew. 2. Moral purity. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul
• DELIBERATENESS
  The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection.
• ABSTINENCE
  1. The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from
• REFRAINER
  One who refrains.
• TEMPERANCE
  1. Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation,
• REFRAIN
  L. refrenare; influenced by OF. refraindre to restrain, moderate, fr. LL. refrangere, for L. refringere to break up, break . L. refrenare is fr. pref. re- back + frenum bridle; cf. Skr. dh to 1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed
• SOBRIETY
  1. Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety. Public sobriety is a relative duty. Blackstone. 2. Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness;
• INSOBRIETY
  Want of sobriety, moderation, or calmness; intemperance; drunkenness.
• DISTEMPERANCE
  Distemperature.
• IMMODESTY
  Want of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency. "A piece of immodesty." Pope.
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• INABSTINENCE
  Want of abstinence; indulgence. "The inabstinence of Eve." Milton.
• ATTEMPERANCE
  Temperance; attemperament. Chaucer.
• IMMODERATION
  Want of moderation. Hallywell.