'abnegation' definitions:
Definition of 'abnegation'
(from WordNet)
noun
The denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief; "abnegation of the Holy Trinity"
noun
Renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others [syn: abnegation, self-abnegation, denial, self-denial, self-renunciation]
Synonyms of 'abnegation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstinence,
- calm,
- calmness,
- conservatism,
- constraint,
- continence,
- contradiction,
- control,
- cool,
- declension,
- declination,
- declinature,
- declining,
- denial,
- deprivation,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- disobedience,
- dispassion,
- dissent,
- evenness,
- forbearance,
- frugality,
- gentleness,
- golden mean,
- happy medium,
- holding back,
- impartiality,
- judiciousness,
- juste-milieu,
- lenity,
- meden agan,
- middle way,
- mildness,
- moderateness,
- moderation,
- moderationism,
- nay,
- naysaying,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative answer,
- negative attitude,
- negativeness,
- negativism,
- negativity,
- neutrality,
- nix,
- no,
- nonacceptance,
- noncompliance,
- nonconsent,
- nonobservance,
- nonviolence,
- nothing in excess,
- pacifism,
- prudence,
- recantation,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- repose,
- repudiation,
- restraint,
- retention,
- self-abnegation,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-discipline,
- self-mastery,
- self-restraint,
- serenity,
- soberness,
- sobriety,
- sophrosyne,
- stability,
- steadiness,
- temperance,
- temperateness,
- thumbs-down,
- tranquillity,
- turndown,
- unexcessiveness,
- unextravagance,
- unextremeness,
- unwillingness,
- via media,
- withholding