'abstinence' definitions:
Definition of 'abstinence'
(from WordNet)
noun
The trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) [syn: abstinence, abstention]
noun
Act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite
Synonyms of 'abstinence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnegation,
- abstainment,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence from food,
- Albigensianism,
- anchoritic monasticism,
- anchoritism,
- asceticism,
- austerity,
- avoidance,
- banyan day,
- calm,
- calmness,
- Catharism,
- celibacy,
- chastity,
- conservatism,
- constraint,
- continence,
- continency,
- control,
- cool,
- desuetude,
- dispassion,
- disuse,
- Encratism,
- eremitism,
- eschewal,
- evenness,
- fast,
- fasting,
- fish day,
- flagellation,
- Franciscanism,
- Friday,
- fruitarianism,
- gentleness,
- golden mean,
- gymnosophy,
- happy medium,
- impartiality,
- intactness,
- judiciousness,
- juste-milieu,
- lenity,
- Lenten fare,
- maceration,
- maidenhead,
- maidenhood,
- meden agan,
- mendicantism,
- middle way,
- mildness,
- moderateness,
- moderation,
- moderationism,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- mortification,
- nephalism,
- neutrality,
- nonemployment,
- nonprevalence,
- nonuse,
- nonviolence,
- nothing in excess,
- obsolescence,
- obsoleteness,
- obsoletion,
- obsoletism,
- pacifism,
- pensioning off,
- plain living,
- Platonic love,
- prudence,
- punishment of Tantalus,
- puritanism,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Pythagorism,
- Rechabitism,
- refraining,
- refrainment,
- renunciation,
- repose,
- restraint,
- restriction of intake,
- retirement,
- rigor,
- Sabbatarianism,
- self-abnegation,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-mortification,
- self-restraint,
- serenity,
- sexual abstinence,
- Shakerism,
- simple diet,
- sobriety,
- spare diet,
- Spartan fare,
- stability,
- starvation,
- steadiness,
- Stoicism,
- superannuation,
- teetotalism,
- temperance,
- temperateness,
- the pledge,
- total abstinence,
- tranquillity,
- Trappism,
- unexcessiveness,
- unextravagance,
- unextremeness,
- unprevalence,
- vegetarianism,
- via media,
- virginity,
- voluntary poverty,
- Waldensianism,
- Yoga