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soberness
noun as in temperance
Strong matches
- abnegation
- abstemiousness
- abstinence
- asceticism
- astringency
- austerity
- conservatism
- constraint
- continence
- control
- discretion
- dryness
- forbearance
- forgoing
- frugality
- measure
- moderateness
- moderation
- moderatism
- mortification
- prohibition
- prudence
- reasonableness
- restraint
- sacrifice
- self-control
- self-denial
- self-discipline
- sobriety
- stoicism
- teetotalism
Example Sentences
Against the soberness of the black jacket, the slash of white, covered in traditional Ukrainian embroidery, was impossible to miss.
He said on Bild TV that the German company would investigate the mutation in the coming days but that he viewed the matter with “with a degree of soberness”.
In the last 10 days, Trump has moved from scripted soberness about the virus to saying much of the country is corona-free and governors must keep reopening their states.
We urge South Dakota’s political leaders to resist their hardwired intransigence and commit to shepherding us through these trials with forethought, soberness and flexibility.
Respondents suggested that in contrast with German soberness, the Israeli intellectual style is creative, entrepreneurial, jumpy, open, disorderly, flexible, improvisatory, courageous, associative and intuitive.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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