happy medium

THESAURUS

happy medium

abnegation, abstinence, average, balance, calm, calmness, center, compromise, conservatism, constraint, continence, control, cool, dispassion, evenness, fence, generality, gentleness, golden mean, half measures, half-and-half measures, halfway measures, impartiality, judiciousness, juste-milieu, lenity, mean, meden agan, median, mediocrity, medium, middle, middle course, middle ground, middle point, middle position, middle state, middle way, middle-of-the-road, midpoint, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, neutral ground, neutrality, nonviolence, norm, normal, nothing in excess, pacifism, par, prudence, repose, restraint, rule, run, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-restraint, serenity, sobriety, stability, steadiness, temperance, temperateness, tranquillity, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, via media