Exact Match:
- monasticism
- asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience
Synonyms:
- Albigensianism,
- Catharism,
- Franciscanism,
- Sabbatarianism,
- Trappism,
- Waldensianism,
- Yoga,
- abstinence,
- anchoritic monasticism,
- anchoritism,
- asceticism,
- austerity,
- bachelordom,
- bachelorhood,
- bachelorism,
- bachelorship,
- celibacy,
- continence,
- eremitism,
- fasting,
- flagellation,
- friarhood,
- maceration,
- maidenhead,
- maidenhood,
- mendicantism,
- misogamy,
- misogyny,
- monachism,
- monkery,
- mortification,
- puritanism,
- rigor,
- self-denial,
- self-mortification,
- single blessedness,
- single state,
- singleness,
- spinsterhood,
- unwed state,
- virgin state,
- virginity,
- voluntary poverty
Related Words:
- Albigensianism,
- Catharism,
- Day of Atonement,
- Franciscanism,
- Lenten,
- Sabbatarianism,
- Trappism,
- Waldensianism,
- Yoga,
- Yom Kippur,
- abstinence,
- anchoritic monasticism,
- anchoritism,
- asceticism,
- austerity,
- cold purgatorial fires,
- dog-hungry,
- empty,
- eremitism,
- famished,
- famishing,
- flagellation,
- hair shirt,
- half-famished,
- half-starved,
- hungering,
- hungry,
- lustration,
- maceration,
- mendicantism,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- mortification,
- peckish,
- penance,
- penitence,
- penitential act,
- penitential exercise,
- pinched with hunger,
- purgation,
- purgatory,
- puritanism,
- quadragesimal,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- repentance,
- rigor,
- sackcloth and ashes,
- self-denial,
- self-mortification,
- sharp-set,
- starved,
- starving,
- uneating,
- unfed,
- unfilled,
- voluntary poverty,
- voracious,
- wolfish
- Albigensianism,
- Catharism,
- Day of Atonement,
- Franciscanism,
- Sabbatarianism,
- Trappism,
- Waldensianism,
- Yoga,
- Yom Kippur,
- abstinence,
- anchoritic monasticism,
- anchoritism,
- asceticism,
- austerity,
- bastinado,
- basting,
- battery,
- beating,
- belting,
- buffeting,
- caning,
- clubbing,
- cold purgatorial fires,
- corporal punishment,
- cowhiding,
- cudgeling,
- drubbing,
- eremitism,
- fasting,
- flailing,
- flogging,
- fustigation,
- hair shirt,
- horsewhipping,
- lacing,
- lashing,
- lustration,
- maceration,
- mendicantism,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- mortification,
- penance,
- penitence,
- penitential act,
- penitential exercise,
- pistol-whipping,
- purgation,
- purgatory,
- puritanism,
- rawhiding,
- repentance,
- rigor,
- sackcloth and ashes,
- scourging,
- self-denial,
- self-mortification,
- spanking,
- strapping,
- stripes,
- swingeing,
- switching,
- thrashing,
- trouncing,
- truncheoning,
- voluntary poverty,
- whipping
- bachelorhood
collapse - the state of being an unmarried man
- the time of a man's life prior to marriage related words >
- spinsterhood
collapse
- the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman) related words >
- mortification
collapse
- (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself) related words >
- Albigensianism,
- Catharism,
- Day of Atonement,
- Franciscanism,
- Sabbatarianism,
- Trappism,
- Waldensianism,
- Yoga,
- Yom Kippur,
- abasement,
- abashment,
- abstinence,
- anchoritic monasticism,
- anchoritism,
- asceticism,
- austerity,
- awkwardness,
- caries,
- carrion,
- chagrin,
- cold purgatorial fires,
- comedown,
- confusion,
- debasement,
- decay,
- decomposition,
- deflation,
- descent,
- discomfiture,
- discomposure,
- disconcertedness,
- disconcertion,
- disconcertment,
- discountenance,
- disgrace,
- distress,
- disturbance,
- dry gangrene,
- dry rot,
- dump,
- embarrassment,
- eremitism,
- fasting,
- flagellation,
- foulness,
- gangrene,
- gas gangrene,
- hair shirt,
- hangdog look,
- humbled pride,
- humiliation,
- letdown,
- lustration,
- maceration,
- mendicantism,
- moist gangrene,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- necrosis,
- necrotic tissue,
- noma,
- penance,
- penitence,
- penitential act,
- penitential exercise,
- purgation,
- purgatory,
- puritanism,
- put-down,
- putrefaction,
- putrescence,
- putridity,
- putridness,
- rancidity,
- rancidness,
- rankness,
- repentance,
- rigor,
- rot,
- rottenness,
- sackcloth and ashes,
- self-abasement,
- self-abnegation,
- self-denial,
- self-diminishment,
- self-mortification,
- setdown,
- shame,
- shamefacedness,
- shamefastness,
- slough,
- sphacelation,
- sphacelus,
- spoilage,
- tooth decay,
- voluntary poverty
- 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
- austerity
collapse
- the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) related words >
- Albigensianism,
- Catharism,
- Franciscanism,
- Lenten fare,
- Sabbatarianism,
- Spartan simplicity,
- Spartanism,
- Trappism,
- Waldensianism,
- Yoga,
- abstinence,
- anchoritic monasticism,
- anchoritism,
- asceticism,
- astringency,
- austerity program,
- authoritarianism,
- baldness,
- bareness,
- candor,
- canniness,
- care,
- carefulness,
- chariness,
- common speech,
- demandingness,
- directness,
- discipline,
- economic planning,
- economicalness,
- economy,
- economy of means,
- eremitism,
- exactingness,
- exiguity,
- exiguousness,
- false economy,
- fasting,
- flagellation,
- forehandedness,
- frankness,
- frugality,
- frugalness,
- good management,
- grimness,
- hardness,
- harshness,
- homespun,
- household words,
- husbandry,
- inclemency,
- inornateness,
- jejuneness,
- jejunity,
- leanness,
- maceration,
- management,
- matter-of-factness,
- meagerness,
- meanness,
- mendicantism,
- meticulousness,
- miserliness,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- mortification,
- narrowness,
- naturalness,
- niggardliness,
- openness,
- paltriness,
- parsimoniousness,
- parsimony,
- plain English,
- plain speaking,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plain words,
- plainness,
- prosaicness,
- prosiness,
- providence,
- prudence,
- prudential administration,
- puniness,
- puritanism,
- regimentation,
- restrainedness,
- rigid discipline,
- rigor,
- roughness,
- ruggedness,
- rustic style,
- scantiness,
- scantness,
- scrawniness,
- scrimpiness,
- self-denial,
- self-mortification,
- severity,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- skimpiness,
- slenderness,
- slightness,
- slim pickings,
- slimness,
- smallness,
- soberness,
- spareness,
- sparingness,
- starkness,
- sternness,
- stinginess,
- straightforwardness,
- strictness,
- stringency,
- thinness,
- thrift,
- thriftiness,
- tight purse strings,
- toughness,
- unadorned style,
- unadornedness,
- unaffectedness,
- unelaborateness,
- unfanciness,
- unfussiness,
- ungentleness,
- unimaginativeness,
- unpoeticalness,
- unwastefulness,
- vernacular,
- voluntary poverty
- misogyny
collapse
- hatred of women related words >
- Anglophobia,
- Russophobia,
- abhorrence,
- abomination,
- anti-Semitism,
- antipathy,
- aversion,
- bachelordom,
- bachelorhood,
- bachelorism,
- bachelorship,
- bigotry,
- celibacy,
- continence,
- despitefulness,
- detestation,
- dislike,
- execration,
- hate,
- hatred,
- loathing,
- maidenhead,
- maidenhood,
- malevolence,
- malice,
- malignity,
- misandry,
- misanthropy,
- misogamy,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- odium,
- race hatred,
- racism,
- repugnance,
- single blessedness,
- single state,
- singleness,
- spinsterhood,
- spite,
- spitefulness,
- unwed state,
- vials of hate,
- vials of wrath,
- virgin state,
- virginity,
- xenophobia
- Platonic love,
- abstinence,
- allantoic membrane,
- amnion,
- amniotic sac,
- arachnoid membrane,
- bachelordom,
- bachelorhood,
- bachelorism,
- bachelorship,
- basement membrane,
- boyhood,
- celibacy,
- cherry,
- childhood,
- conjuctiva,
- continence,
- continency,
- eardrum,
- girlhood,
- hymen,
- intactness,
- maidenhood,
- membrana serosa,
- membrana tympana,
- membrane,
- meninges,
- meninx,
- misogamy,
- misogyny,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- neurilemma,
- pellicle,
- pericardium,
- perineurium,
- pleura,
- pre-teens,
- serosa,
- single blessedness,
- single state,
- singleness,
- spinsterhood,
- subteens,
- tympanic membrane,
- tympanum,
- unwed state,
- velum,
- virgin state,
- virginity
- singleness
collapse
- the quality of concentrating on one central objective; "his singleness of purpose"
- without hypocrisy; "the singleness of his motives could not be questioned" related words >
- aloneness,
- bachelordom,
- bachelorhood,
- bachelorism,
- bachelorship,
- celibacy,
- combination,
- continence,
- elementarity,
- fundamentality,
- fusion,
- homogeneity,
- identity,
- individuality,
- indivisibility,
- intactness,
- integrality,
- integration,
- integrity,
- inviolability,
- irreducibility,
- loneliness,
- loneness,
- lonesomeness,
- maidenhead,
- maidenhood,
- misogamy,
- misogyny,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- monism,
- oneness,
- organic unity,
- particularity,
- plainness,
- purity,
- selfsameness,
- severity,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- single blessedness,
- single state,
- singularity,
- solidarity,
- solidification,
- solidity,
- solitariness,
- solitude,
- spinsterhood,
- starkness,
- unadulteration,
- undividedness,
- unification,
- uniformity,
- uniqueness,
- unity,
- univocity,
- unmixedness,
- unsophistication,
- unwed state,
- virgin state,
- virginity,
- wholeness
- virginity
collapse
- the condition or quality of being a virgin related words >
- Platonic love,
- abstinence,
- artlessness,
- bachelordom,
- bachelorhood,
- bachelorism,
- bachelorship,
- berry,
- brand-newness,
- callowness,
- celibacy,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- continence,
- continency,
- dewiness,
- freshness,
- gloss of novelty,
- greenness,
- immaturity,
- inartificiality,
- intactness,
- lateness,
- maidenhead,
- maidenhood,
- mint condition,
- misogamy,
- misogyny,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- natural man,
- natural state,
- naturalness,
- nature,
- newbornness,
- newfangledness,
- newfangleness,
- newness,
- novelness,
- novelty,
- nowness,
- originality,
- presentness,
- pristineness,
- purity,
- rawness,
- recency,
- recentness,
- single blessedness,
- single state,
- singleness,
- spinsterhood,
- state of nature,
- strangeness,
- uncommonness,
- unfamiliarity,
- unusualness,
- unwed state,
- virgin state
- privacy
collapse
- the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others
- the condition of being concealed or hidden related words >
- Jim Crow,
- adytum,
- alienation,
- aloneness,
- aloofness,
- anonymity,
- apartheid,
- apartness,
- ashram,
- celibacy,
- cell,
- clandestineness,
- cloister,
- closed meeting,
- concealment,
- confidentiality,
- confidentialness,
- covertness,
- den,
- detachment,
- executive session,
- hermitage,
- hideaway,
- hideout,
- hiding place,
- holy of holies,
- incognito,
- isolation,
- isolationism,
- ivory tower,
- keeping apart,
- lair,
- loneliness,
- loneness,
- lonesomeness,
- mew,
- monasticism,
- moving apart,
- private conference,
- privatism,
- privatization,
- quarantine,
- recess,
- reclusion,
- retirement,
- retreat,
- rustication,
- sanctum,
- sanctum sanctorum,
- seclusion,
- secrecy,
- secret place,
- secretiveness,
- segregation,
- separateness,
- separation,
- sequestration,
- single blessedness,
- solitariness,
- solitude,
- splendid isolation,
- surreptitiousness,
- withdrawal
- celibacy
collapse
- 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
- Albigensianism,
- Catharism,
- Franciscanism,
- Sabbatarianism,
- Trappism,
- Waldensianism,
- Yoga,
- absolute zero,
- absoluteness,
- abstinence,
- abstruseness,
- accuracy,
- acerbity,
- acidity,
- acridity,
- acrimony,
- acuteness,
- adverse circumstances,
- adversity,
- affliction,
- aggravation,
- algidity,
- anchoritic monasticism,
- anchoritism,
- animality,
- annoyance,
- arduousness,
- asceticism,
- asperity,
- astringency,
- atrocity,
- attention to detail,
- attention to fact,
- austerity,
- barbarity,
- bite,
- bitterness,
- bleakness,
- blight,
- bloodlust,
- bothersomeness,
- briskness,
- brutality,
- bummer,
- burdensomeness,
- care,
- care for truth,
- causticity,
- chill,
- chilliness,
- circumstantiality,
- cold,
- coldness,
- complexity,
- complication,
- conscientiousness,
- cool,
- coolness,
- coolth,
- correctness,
- crispness,
- criticality,
- criticalness,
- cross,
- cryogenics,
- cryology,
- curse,
- decrease in temperature,
- delicacy,
- destructiveness,
- detail,
- difficulties,
- difficultness,
- difficulty,
- downer,
- edge,
- eremitism,
- exactingness,
- exactitude,
- exactness,
- exquisiteness,
- extremity,
- faithfulness,
- fasting,
- faultlessness,
- ferociousness,
- fidelity,
- fierceness,
- fineness,
- finicality,
- finicalness,
- finickiness,
- finickingness,
- firmness,
- flagellation,
- flawlessness,
- force,
- freezing point,
- freshness,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- fundamentalism,
- furiousness,
- fussiness,
- gelidity,
- grip,
- hairiness,
- hard knocks,
- hard life,
- hard lot,
- hardcase,
- hardness,
- hardship,
- harshness,
- iciness,
- impetuosity,
- impliability,
- inclemency,
- inexorability,
- inflexibility,
- inhospitableness,
- inhumanity,
- intense cold,
- intensity,
- intricacy,
- irritation,
- keenness,
- laboriousness,
- literalism,
- literality,
- literalness,
- low temperature,
- maceration,
- malignity,
- mathematical precision,
- mendicantism,
- mercilessness,
- meticulousness,
- mindlessness,
- minuteness,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- mordacity,
- mordancy,
- mortification,
- murderousness,
- niceness,
- nicety,
- nip,
- nippiness,
- obduracy,
- obdurateness,
- obstinacy,
- onerousness,
- oppressiveness,
- orthodoxy,
- particularity,
- particularness,
- perfection,
- pitilessness,
- plight,
- poignancy,
- point,
- preciseness,
- precisianism,
- precision,
- predicament,
- pressure,
- punctilio,
- punctiliousness,
- punctuality,
- purism,
- puritanism,
- rawness,
- refinement,
- relentlessness,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- right,
- rightness,
- rigidity,
- rigidness,
- rigorism,
- rigorousness,
- roughness,
- ruggedness,
- savagery,
- scrupulosity,
- scrupulousness,
- sea of troubles,
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