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asceticism

English

  1. 🔊 rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint
  2. 🔊 the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state
  3. 🔊 the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)

Spanish

  1. 🔊 ascetismo asceticism

Similar words

ascesis austerity nonindulgence 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