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1. Quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes
   - moderateness
    
2. A change for the better
   - easing, relief
    
3. The trait of avoiding excesses
   - temperance
    
4. The action of lessening in severity or intensity
   "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions";
   - mitigation

Derived forms: moderations

See also: immoderate, mod [informal], moderate

Type of: alteration, change, control, decrease, degree, diminution, grade, level, modification, natural virtue, reduction, restraint, step-down

Antonym: immoderation, intemperance

Encyclopedia: Moderation