Moderation

n.	1.	The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.
	2.	The state or quality of being mmoderate. In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. - Pope.
	3.	Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear adversity with moderation. The calm and judicious moderation of Orange. - Motley.
	4.	The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; - usually contracted to mods.

Noun	1.	moderation - quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes Synonyms: moderateness Antonyms: immoderateness, immoderation - the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation
	2.	moderation - a change for the better Synonyms: easing, relief
	3.	moderation - the trait of avoiding excesses Synonyms: temperance
	4.	moderation - the action of lessening in severity or intensity; "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions"

abnegation, boundary, bounds, center, compromise, confinement, constraint, denial, discipline, fence, frugality, golden mean, gravity, half measures, half-and-half measures, halfway measures, happy medium, limit, limitation, mean, measure, medium, middle course, middle ground, middle way, moderateness, neutral ground, nothing in excess, prescription, proscription, qualification, renouncement, renunciation, restrain, restriction, sedateness, self-denial, self-discipline, self-mastery, self-restraint, seriousness, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, solemnity, sophrosyne, staidness, temperance, temperateness, via media