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Noun asceticism has 3 senses

• asceticism(n = noun.cognition) Array - the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state; Array
is a kind of doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought

• asceticism(n = noun.attribute) austerity, nonindulgence - the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures); Array
is a kind of self-denial, self-discipline
has particulars: monasticism

• asceticism(n = noun.act) ascesis - rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint; Array
is a kind of self-control, self-denial, self-discipline

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asceticism

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

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Asceticism

N asceticism, puritanism, sabbatarianism, cynicism, austerity, total abstinence, nephalism, mortification, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, flagellation, penance, fasting, martyrdom, ascetic, anchoret, anchorite, martyr, Heautontimorumenos, hermit, puritan, sabbatarian, cynic, sanyasi, yogi, ascetic, austere, puritanical, cynical, over-religious, acerbic.

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