Exact Match:
- abstemiousness
- moderation in eating and drinking
- restricted to bare necessities
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- avoidance
collapse - deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening related words >
- Encratism,
- Friday,
- Lenten fare,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Pythagorism,
- Rechabitism,
- Shakerism,
- Spartan fare,
- Stoicism,
- abstainment,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- asceticism,
- banyan day,
- celibacy,
- chastity,
- continence,
- cringe,
- dodge,
- duck,
- elusion,
- eschewal,
- evasion,
- fallback,
- fast,
- fish day,
- flinch,
- fruitarianism,
- gymnosophy,
- nephalism,
- plain living,
- pullback,
- pullout,
- recoil,
- refraining,
- refrainment,
- retreat,
- runaround,
- sexual abstinence,
- shunning,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidestepping,
- simple diet,
- spare diet,
- teetotalism,
- the pledge,
- total abstinence,
- vegetarianism,
- wince
- asceticism
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- rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint
- the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state related words >
- Day of Atonement,
- Encratism,
- Friday,
- Lenten fare,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Pythagorism,
- Rechabitism,
- Shakerism,
- Spartan fare,
- Stoicism,
- Yom Kippur,
- abstainment,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- avoidance,
- banyan day,
- celibacy,
- chastity,
- cold purgatorial fires,
- continence,
- eschewal,
- fast,
- fasting,
- fish day,
- flagellation,
- fruitarianism,
- gymnosophy,
- hair shirt,
- lustration,
- maceration,
- mortification,
- nephalism,
- penance,
- penitence,
- penitential act,
- penitential exercise,
- plain living,
- purgation,
- purgatory,
- refraining,
- refrainment,
- repentance,
- sackcloth and ashes,
- sexual abstinence,
- simple diet,
- spare diet,
- teetotalism,
- the pledge,
- total abstinence,
- vegetarianism
- Encratism,
- Friday,
- Lenten fare,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Pythagorism,
- Rechabitism,
- Shakerism,
- Spartan fare,
- Stoicism,
- abstainment,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- asceticism,
- avoidance,
- avoiding reaction,
- banyan day,
- celibacy,
- chastity,
- circumvention,
- continence,
- defense mechanism,
- dodge,
- duck,
- elusion,
- elusiveness,
- equivocation,
- escape,
- eschewal,
- evasion,
- evasive action,
- evasiveness,
- fast,
- fish day,
- forbearance,
- forestalling,
- forestallment,
- fruitarianism,
- getting around,
- gymnosophy,
- jink,
- nephalism,
- neutrality,
- nonintervention,
- noninvolvement,
- plain living,
- prevention,
- refrainment,
- sexual abstinence,
- shunning,
- shunting off,
- shy,
- sidestep,
- sidetracking,
- simple diet,
- slip,
- spare diet,
- teetotalism,
- the pledge,
- the runaround,
- total abstinence,
- vegetarianism,
- zigzag
- Encratism,
- Friday,
- Lenten fare,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Pythagorism,
- Rechabitism,
- Shakerism,
- Spartan fare,
- Stoicism,
- abstainment,
- abstemiousness,
- abstinence,
- anythingarianism,
- asceticism,
- avoidance,
- banyan day,
- celibacy,
- chastity,
- continence,
- cop-out,
- desuetude,
- disuse,
- eschewal,
- evasion,
- fast,
- fence-sitting,
- fish day,
- fruitarianism,
- gymnosophy,
- impartiality,
- independence,
- mugwumpery,
- mugwumpism,
- nephalism,
- neutralism,
- neutrality,
- nonalignment,
- noncommitment,
- nonemployment,
- noninvolvement,
- nonpartisanism,
- nonprevalence,
- nonuse,
- nothingarianism,
- obsolescence,
- obsoleteness,
- obsoletion,
- obsoletism,
- pensioning off,
- plain living,
- refraining,
- refrainment,
- retirement,
- sexual abstinence,
- simple diet,
- spare diet,
- strict neutrality,
- superannuation,
- teetotalism,
- the pledge,
- total abstinence,
- unprevalence,
- vegetarianism
- celibacy
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- an unmarried status related words >
- Encratism,
- Friday,
- Lenten fare,
- Platonic love,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Pythagorism,
- Rechabitism,
- Shakerism,
- Spartan fare,
- Stoicism,
- abstainment,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- alienation,
- aloneness,
- aloofness,
- asceticism,
- avoidance,
- bachelorhood,
- banyan day,
- chastity,
- continence,
- continency,
- detachment,
- eschewal,
- fast,
- fish day,
- friarhood,
- fruitarianism,
- gymnosophy,
- intactness,
- isolation,
- keeping apart,
- loneliness,
- loneness,
- lonesomeness,
- maidenhead,
- maidenhood,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- monkery,
- moving apart,
- nephalism,
- plain living,
- privacy,
- purity,
- refraining,
- refrainment,
- seclusion,
- self-restraint,
- separateness,
- sequestration,
- sexual abstinence,
- simple diet,
- single blessedness,
- singleness,
- solitariness,
- solitude,
- spare diet,
- spinsterhood,
- splendid isolation,
- teetotalism,
- the pledge,
- total abstinence,
- vegetarianism,
- virginity,
- withdrawal
- Stoicism
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- an indifference to pleasure or pain
- (philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno related words >
- Aristotelian philosophy,
- Aristotelianism,
- Christian ethics,
- Encratism,
- Epicureanism,
- Friday,
- Lenten fare,
- Peripatetic school,
- Peripateticism,
- Platonic philosophy,
- Platonism,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Pythagorism,
- Rechabitism,
- Shakerism,
- Spartan fare,
- Stoic philosophy,
- abstainment,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- altruistic ethics,
- aretaics,
- asceticism,
- avoidance,
- banyan day,
- casuistry,
- categorical imperative,
- celibacy,
- chastity,
- comparative ethics,
- continence,
- deontology,
- egoistic ethics,
- empiricism,
- eschewal,
- ethical formalism,
- ethical philosophy,
- ethology,
- ethonomics,
- eudaemonics,
- evolutionism,
- fast,
- fish day,
- fruitarianism,
- golden rule,
- gymnosophy,
- hedonism,
- intuitionism,
- moral philosophy,
- nephalism,
- perfectionism,
- plain living,
- refraining,
- refrainment,
- sexual abstinence,
- simple diet,
- situation ethics,
- spare diet,
- teetotalism,
- the pledge,
- total abstinence,
- utilitarianism,
- vegetarianism
- temperance
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- the act of tempering
- the trait of avoiding excesses related words >
- Rechabitism,
- abnegation,
- abstemiousness,
- abstinence,
- asceticism,
- austerity,
- calm,
- calmness,
- cardinal virtues,
- charity,
- conservatism,
- constraint,
- continence,
- control,
- cool,
- dispassion,
- eschewal,
- evenness,
- faith,
- forbearance,
- forgoing,
- fortitude,
- gentleness,
- golden mean,
- gravity,
- happy medium,
- hope,
- impartiality,
- judiciousness,
- juste-milieu,
- justice,
- lenity,
- love,
- measure,
- meden agan,
- middle way,
- mildness,
- moderateness,
- moderation,
- moderationism,
- mortification,
- natural virtues,
- neutrality,
- nonviolence,
- nothing in excess,
- pacifism,
- prohibition,
- prudence,
- reasonableness,
- refrainment,
- repose,
- restraint,
- sacrifice,
- sedateness,
- self-abnegation,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-discipline,
- self-restraint,
- serenity,
- seriousness,
- sober-mindedness,
- soberness,
- sobersidedness,
- sobersides,
- sobriety,
- solemnity,
- stability,
- staidness,
- steadiness,
- supernatural virtues,
- teetotalism,
- temperateness,
- theological virtues,
- tranquillity,
- undrunkenness,
- unexcessiveness,
- unextravagance,
- unextremeness,
- uninebriatedness,
- unintoxicatedness,
- via media
- chastity
collapse
- abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) related words >
- Atticism,
- Encratism,
- Friday,
- Lenten fare,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Pythagorism,
- Rechabitism,
- Shakerism,
- Spartan fare,
- Stoicism,
- absoluteness,
- abstainment,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- appropriateness,
- asceticism,
- avoidance,
- banyan day,
- celibacy,
- chasteness,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clearness,
- comeliness,
- continence,
- correctness,
- defectlessness,
- dignity,
- directness,
- discrimination,
- distinction,
- ease,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- eschewal,
- fast,
- faultlessness,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- finish,
- fish day,
- fittingness,
- flawlessness,
- flow,
- flowing periods,
- fluency,
- forbearance,
- fruitarianism,
- good taste,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- guiltlessness,
- gymnosophy,
- immaculacy,
- immaculateness,
- impeccability,
- infallibility,
- innocence,
- limpidity,
- lucidity,
- maidenhead,
- maidenhood,
- naturalness,
- neatness,
- nephalism,
- pellucidity,
- perfection,
- perspicuity,
- plain living,
- plainness,
- polish,
- propriety,
- purity,
- refinement,
- refraining,
- refrainment,
- restraint,
- seemliness,
- self-restraint,
- sexual abstinence,
- simple diet,
- simplicity,
- sinlessness,
- smoothness,
- spare diet,
- spotlessness,
- stainlessness,
- straightforwardness,
- taintlessness,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- teetotalism,
- terseness,
- the pledge,
- total abstinence,
- unaffectedness,
- vegetarianism,
- virginity,
- virtue
- vegetarianism
collapse
- a diet excluding all meat and fish related words >
- Encratism,
- Friday,
- Lenten fare,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Pythagorism,
- Rechabitism,
- Shakerism,
- Spartan fare,
- Stoicism,
- abstainment,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- acid-ash diet,
- allergy diet,
- appetite,
- asceticism,
- avoidance,
- banyan day,
- bland diet,
- calorie chart,
- calorie counter,
- cannibalism,
- carnivorism,
- carnivority,
- carnivorousness,
- celibacy,
- chastity,
- chewing,
- consumption,
- continence,
- cropping,
- deglutition,
- devouring,
- devourment,
- diabetic diet,
- diet,
- diet book,
- dietary,
- dietetics,
- dieting,
- dining,
- eating,
- epulation,
- eschewal,
- fast,
- feasting,
- feeding,
- fish day,
- fruitarianism,
- gluttony,
- gobbling,
- grazing,
- gymnosophy,
- herbivorism,
- herbivority,
- herbivorousness,
- high-protein diet,
- high-vitamin diet,
- hunger,
- ingestion,
- licking,
- low-carbohydrate diet,
- low-salt diet,
- macrobiotic diet,
- manducation,
- mastication,
- messing,
- munching,
- nephalism,
- nibbling,
- nutrition,
- omnivorism,
- omnivorousness,
- omophagy,
- pantophagy,
- pap,
- pasture,
- pasturing,
- pecking,
- plain living,
- refraining,
- refrainment,
- regalement,
- regime,
- regimen,
- relishing,
- rumination,
- salt-free diet,
- savoring,
- sexual abstinence,
- simple diet,
- soft diet,
- spare diet,
- spoon victuals,
- tasting,
- teetotalism,
- the pledge,
- total abstinence,
- ulcer diet,
- vitamin-deficiency diet,
- wolfing
- continence
collapse
- the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters
- voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge related words >
- Encratism,
- Friday,
- Lenten fare,
- Platonic love,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Pythagorism,
- Rechabitism,
- Shakerism,
- Spartan fare,
- Stoicism,
- abnegation,
- abstainment,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- asceticism,
- avoidance,
- bachelordom,
- bachelorhood,
- bachelorism,
- bachelorship,
- banyan day,
- boundary,
- bounds,
- calm,
- calmness,
- celibacy,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- confinement,
- conservatism,
- constraint,
- continency,
- control,
- cool,
- discipline,
- dispassion,
- eschewal,
- evenness,
- fast,
- fish day,
- fruitarianism,
- gentleness,
- golden mean,
- gymnosophy,
- happy medium,
- impartiality,
- intactness,
- judiciousness,
- juste-milieu,
- lenity,
- limit,
- limitation,
- maidenhead,
- maidenhood,
- meden agan,
- middle way,
- mildness,
- misogamy,
- misogyny,
- moderateness,
- moderation,
- moderationism,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- nephalism,
- neutrality,
- nonviolence,
- nothing in excess,
- pacifism,
- plain living,
- prescription,
- proscription,
- prudence,
- purity,
- qualification,
- refraining,
- refrainment,
- repose,
- restrain,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- self-abnegation,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-restraint,
- serenity,
- sexual abstinence,
- simple diet,
- single blessedness,
- single state,
- singleness,
- sobriety,
- spare diet,
- spinsterhood,
- stability,
- steadiness,
- teetotalism,
- temperance,
- temperateness,
- the pledge,
- total abstinence,
- tranquillity,
- unexcessiveness,
- unextravagance,
- unextremeness,
- unwed state,
- vegetarianism,
- via media,
- virgin state,
- virginity
- self-denial
collapse
- the act of denying yourself; controlling your impulses related words >
- Albigensianism,
- Catharism,
- Franciscanism,
- Sabbatarianism,
- Trappism,
- Waldensianism,
- Yoga,
- abnegation,
- abstaining,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- altruism,
- anchoritic monasticism,
- anchoritism,
- aplomb,
- asceticism,
- austerity,
- calm,
- calmness,
- commitment,
- composure,
- consecration,
- conservatism,
- constraint,
- continence,
- control,
- cool,
- dedication,
- denial,
- desisting,
- devotion,
- discipline,
- disinterest,
- disinterestedness,
- dispassion,
- eremitism,
- evenness,
- fasting,
- flagellation,
- forbearance,
- frugality,
- gentleness,
- giving up,
- golden mean,
- happy medium,
- hardship,
- humility,
- impartiality,
- independence,
- judiciousness,
- juste-milieu,
- lenity,
- maceration,
- magnanimity,
- meden agan,
- mendicantism,
- middle way,
- mildness,
- moderateness,
- moderation,
- moderationism,
- modesty,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- mortification,
- neutrality,
- nonviolence,
- nothing in excess,
- pacifism,
- possession,
- privation,
- prudence,
- puritanism,
- refusal,
- refusing,
- renouncement,
- renouncing,
- renunciation,
- repose,
- restraint,
- rigor,
- sacrifice,
- self-abasement,
- self-abnegation,
- self-command,
- self-conquest,
- self-control,
- self-devotion,
- self-discipline,
- self-effacement,
- self-forgetful,
- self-forgetfulness,
- self-government,
- self-immolation,
- self-mastery,
- self-mortification,
- self-neglect,
- self-neglectfulness,
- self-possession,
- self-renouncement,
- self-restraint,
- self-sacrifice,
- self-sacrificing,
- self-subjection,
- selflessness,
- serenity,
- soberness,
- sobriety,
- sophrosyne,
- stability,
- steadiness,
- suffering,
- swearing off,
- temperance,
- temperateness,
- tranquillity,
- unacquisitiveness,
- unexcessiveness,
- unextravagance,
- unextremeness,
- unpossessiveness,
- unselfishness,
- via media,
- voluntary poverty
- abstinence
collapse
- act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite
- the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) related words >
- Albigensianism,
- Catharism,
- Encratism,
- Franciscanism,
- Friday,
- Lenten fare,
- Platonic love,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Pythagorism,
- Rechabitism,
- Sabbatarianism,
- Shakerism,
- Spartan fare,
- Stoicism,
- Trappism,
- Waldensianism,
- Yoga,
- abnegation,
- abstainment,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence from food,
- anchoritic monasticism,
- anchoritism,
- asceticism,
- austerity,
- avoidance,
- banyan day,
- calm,
- calmness,
- celibacy,
- chastity,
- conservatism,
- constraint,
- continence,
- continency,
- control,
- cool,
- desuetude,
- dispassion,
- disuse,
- eremitism,
- eschewal,
- evenness,
- fast,
- fasting,
- fish day,
- flagellation,
- fruitarianism,
- gentleness,
- golden mean,
- gymnosophy,
- happy medium,
- impartiality,
- intactness,
- judiciousness,
- juste-milieu,
- lenity,
- 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,
- prudence,
- punishment of Tantalus,
- puritanism,
- refraining,
- refrainment,
- renunciation,
- repose,
- restraint,
- restriction of intake,
- retirement,
- rigor,
- self-abnegation,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-mortification,
- self-restraint,
- serenity,
- sexual abstinence,
- simple diet,
- sobriety,
- spare diet,
- stability,
- starvation,
- steadiness,
- superannuation,
- teetotalism,
- temperance,
- temperateness,
- the pledge,
- total abstinence,
- tranquillity,
- unexcessiveness,
- unextravagance,
- unextremeness,
- unprevalence,
- vegetarianism,
- via media,
- virginity,
- voluntary poverty
- sobriety
collapse
- abstaining from excess
- moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs related words >
- abnegation,
- abstemiousness,
- abstention,
- abstinence,
- augustness,
- balance,
- blackishness,
- calm,
- calmness,
- common sense,
- conservatism,
- constraint,
- contact with reality,
- continence,
- control,
- cool,
- cool head,
- coolheadedness,
- coolness,
- courtliness,
- darkishness,
- darkness,
- darksomeness,
- decorousness,
- demureness,
- denial,
- dignifiedness,
- dignity,
- dispassion,
- due sense of,
- duskiness,
- duskness,
- earnestness,
- evenness,
- forbearance,
- formality,
- frugality,
- funereality,
- gentleness,
- golden mean,
- good sense,
- grandeur,
- graveness,
- gravity,
- grimness,
- happy medium,
- healthy mind,
- horse sense,
- impartiality,
- judiciousness,
- juste-milieu,
- kingliness,
- lenity,
- level head,
- levelheadedness,
- loftiness,
- long face,
- lordliness,
- lucid interval,
- lucidity,
- majesty,
- meden agan,
- mental balance,
- mental equilibrium,
- mental health,
- mental hygiene,
- mental poise,
- middle way,
- mildness,
- moderateness,
- moderation,
- moderationism,
- neutrality,
- nobility,
- nonviolence,
- normalcy,
- normality,
- normalness,
- nothing in excess,
- pacifism,
- plain sense,
- practical mind,
- practical wisdom,
- practicality,
- pride of bearing,
- pride of place,
- princeliness,
- proud bearing,
- prudence,
- rationality,
- reason,
- reasonableness,
- regality,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- repose,
- restraint,
- right mind,
- sadness,
- sanemindedness,
- saneness,
- sanity,
- sedateness,
- self-abnegation,
- self-control,
- self-denial,
- self-discipline,
- self-mastery,
- self-restraint,
- sense,
- senses,
- sensibleness,
- serenity,
- seriousness,
- sober senses,
- sober-mindedness,
- soberness,
- sobersidedness,
- sobersides,
- solemnity,
- solemnness,
- somberness,
- sophrosyne,
- sound mind,
- soundness,
- soundness of mind,
- stability,
- staidness,
- stateliness,
- steadiness,
- straight face,
- swarth,
- swarthiness,
- swartness,
- teetotalism,
- temperance,
- temperateness,
- thoughtfulness,
- tranquillity,
- unexcessiveness,
- unextravagance,
- unextremeness,
- venerability,
- via media,
- weightiness,
- wholesomeness,
- worthiness
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