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RELATED WORD : sexual abstention

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun abstention has 1 sense

• abstention(n = noun.attribute) abstinence - the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol); Array
is a kind of self-denial, self-discipline
Derived forms verb abstain₂, adjective abstentious₁

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THESAURUS

abstention

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

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abstention

Avoidance

N avoidance, abstention, abstinence, for bearance, refraining, inaction, neutrality, avoidance, evasion, elusion, seclusion, avolation, flight, escape, retreat, recoil, departure, rejection, shirker, truant, fugitive, refugee, runaway, runagate, maroon, unsought, unattempted, avoiding, neutral, shy of, elusive, evasive, fugitive, runaway, shy, wild, Adj, lest, in order to avoid, Int, forbear!, keep off, hands off!, sauve qui peut!, every man for himself!, devil take the hindmost!, things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.

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