moderation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes
    moderateness.
  2. noun a change for the better
    easing; relief.
  3. noun the trait of avoiding excesses
    temperance.
  4. noun the action of lessening in severity or intensity
    mitigation.
    • the object being control or moderation of economic depressions

WordNet

Mod`er*a"tion noun
Etymology
L. moderatio: cf. F. modération.
Definitions
  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. pl. The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods.

Webster 1913