'asceticism' definitions:
Definition of 'asceticism'
(from WordNet)
noun
The doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state
noun
The trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) [syn: austerity, asceticism, nonindulgence]
noun
Rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint [syn: asceticism, ascesis]
Synonyms of 'asceticism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstainment,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- avoidance,
- banyan day,
- celibacy,
- chastity,
- cold purgatorial fires,
- continence,
- Day of Atonement,
- Encratism,
- eschewal,
- fast,
- fasting,
- fish day,
- flagellation,
- Friday,
- fruitarianism,
- gymnosophy,
- hair shirt,
- Lenten fare,
- lustration,
- maceration,
- mortification,
- nephalism,
- penance,
- penitence,
- penitential act,
- penitential exercise,
- plain living,
- purgation,
- purgatory,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Pythagorism,
- Rechabitism,
- refraining,
- refrainment,
- repentance,
- sackcloth and ashes,
- sexual abstinence,
- Shakerism,
- simple diet,
- spare diet,
- Spartan fare,
- Stoicism,
- teetotalism,
- the pledge,
- total abstinence,
- vegetarianism,
- Yom Kippur