immoderacy

[ ih-mod-er-uh-see ]

noun

1. immoderation.

Word History and Origins

Origin of immoderacy¹

First recorded in 1675–85; immoder(ate) + -acy

Example Sentences

"Nine Perfect Strangers" also uses its spa as a canvas upon which to splatter critiques about Western immoderacy by looking at what wealthy people will do to address their feelings of spiritual deficiency.

From Salon

Instead, they scold her colleagues for their immoderacy, as when, in 2013, objecting to the majority’s decision to overturn much of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, she complained, “The Court’s opinion can hardly be described as an exemplar of restrained and moderate decision making.”

From The New Yorker

There is something truly misguided: a Broadway musical is one of the very few places where a controlled frenzy and a tasteful immoderacy seem in order.

From Time Magazine Archive

My talk with the old Dutchman, and the lies to which I was constrained, had already given me a sense of how my conduct must appear to others; and now, after the strong admiration I had just experienced and the immoderacy with which I had continued my vain purchases, I began to think of it myself as very hazarded.

From Project Gutenberg

Even in our sensual days the strength of delight is in its seldomness or rarity, and sting in its satiety; mediocrity is its life, and immoderacy its confusion.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• extravagance
• extreme