Temperance vs Equilibrium - What's the difference?
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Habitual]] moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using [[intoxicate, intoxicating liquors.
* 1877 ,
Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.
One of the seven heavenly virtues.
(obsolete) State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
The condition of a system in which competing influences are balanced, resulting in no net change.
* 1999 , , Agent smith speech
(physics) The state of a body at rest or in uniform motion in which the resultant of all forces on it is zero.
(chemistry) The state of a reaction in which the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are the same.
Mental balance.
English nouns with irregular plurals
As nouns the difference between temperance and equilibrium
is that temperance is temperance while equilibrium is balance, equilibrium.temperance
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* temperaunce (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion.
- (Shakespeare)
Coordinate terms
* (virtue) chastity, charity, diligence, patience, kindness, humilityAntonyms
* intemperance * gluttonyDerived terms
* American Temperance Society (ATS) * Loyal Temperance Legion (LTL) * temperance association * temperance bar * temperance chartism * temperance chartist * Temperance Colonization Society * temperance colony * temperance education * temperance group * temperance hotel * temperance journal * temperance lobby * temperance magazine * temperance meeting * temperance movement * temperance movement zealot * temperance norm * temperance organisation, temperance organization * temperance paper * temperance pledge * temperance reading room * temperance society * temperance writer * Toronto Temperance Society (TTS) * Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) * Youth Temperance Council (YTC)See also
(assocciated terms) * anti-prohibitionist, antiprohibitionist * Anti-Saloon League * blind pig * blind tiger * bootlegger * bootlegging * dry, the dries * dry faction * National Prohibition Act * prohibition * Prohibition * prohibitionary * prohibitionist * Prohibition Party * pro-prohibitionist, proprohibitionist * speakeasy * speakeasy club * wet, the wets * wet faction * White Ribbon Recruit * White Ribbon Recruitsequilibrium
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* “equilibrium]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.(dated)
Noun
(en-noun)- Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus.