'Celibacy' definitions:
Definition of 'celibacy'
(from WordNet)
noun
An unmarried status
noun
Abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) [syn: chastity, celibacy, sexual abstention]
Definition of 'Celibacy'
From: GCIDE
- Celibacy \Ce*lib"a*cy\, n. [See Celibate, n.] The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry. "The celibacy of the clergy." --Hallom. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'celibacy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstainment,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- alienation,
- aloneness,
- aloofness,
- asceticism,
- avoidance,
- bachelorhood,
- banyan day,
- chastity,
- continence,
- continency,
- detachment,
- Encratism,
- eschewal,
- fast,
- fish day,
- friarhood,
- Friday,
- fruitarianism,
- gymnosophy,
- intactness,
- isolation,
- keeping apart,
- Lenten fare,
- loneliness,
- loneness,
- lonesomeness,
- maidenhead,
- maidenhood,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- monkery,
- moving apart,
- nephalism,
- plain living,
- Platonic love,
- privacy,
- purity,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Pythagorism,
- Rechabitism,
- refraining,
- refrainment,
- seclusion,
- self-restraint,
- separateness,
- sequestration,
- sexual abstinence,
- Shakerism,
- simple diet,
- single blessedness,
- singleness,
- solitariness,
- solitude,
- spare diet,
- Spartan fare,
- spinsterhood,
- splendid isolation,
- Stoicism,
- teetotalism,
- the pledge,
- total abstinence,
- vegetarianism,
- virginity,
- withdrawal