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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun celibacy has 2 senses

• celibacy(n = noun.state) Array - an unmarried status; Array
is a kind of condition, status

• celibacy(n = noun.act) chastity, sexual abstention - abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows); Array
is a kind of abstinence

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THESAURUS

celibacy

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

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Celibacy

N celibacy, singleness, single blessedness, bachelorhood, bachelorship, misogamy, misogyny, virginity, pucelage, maidenhood, maidenhead, unmarried man, bachelor, Coelebs, agamist, old bachelor, misogamist, misogynist, monogamist, monk, unmarried woman, spinster, maid, maiden, virgin, feme sole, old maid, bachelor girl, girl-bachelor, nun, unmarried, unwed, unwedded, wifeless, spouseless, single.

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