Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun abstemiousness

2 senses of abstemiousness

Sense 1
abstemiousness -- (restricted to bare necessities)
       => meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity -- (the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot)

Sense 2
abstemiousness -- (moderation in eating and drinking)
       => temperance, moderation -- (the trait of avoiding excesses)