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Abstinence
| Abstinence Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Abstinence?
[n] act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite
[n] the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Abstinence: abstention
Related Terms | Find terms related to Abstinence: 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
See Also | celibacy |
chastity |
fast |
fasting |
inhibition |
self-control |
self-denial |
self-denial |
self-discipline |
self-discipline |
sexual abstention |
sobriety |
suppression |
teetotaling |
teetotalism |
temperance
Abstinence In Webster's Dictionary
\Ab"sti*nence\, n. [F. abstinence, L. abstinentia,
fr. abstinere. See {Abstain}.]
1. The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance
of any action, especially the refraining from an
indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications
of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the
practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, --
called also {total abstinence}.
The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers
itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one.
--Locke.
2. The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of
certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.
Penance, fasts, and abstinence, To punish bodies for
the soul's offense. --Dryden.
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