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Word | Asceticism |
Russian Meaning | аскетизм, подвижничество |
the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) / the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state / The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics. / severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons., | |
Usage | ⇒ acts of physical asceticism |
Synonyms | austerity, abstinence, abstemiousness, ascesis, self-denial, severity, temperance, celibacy, chastity, nonindulgence, simplicity, starkness, teetotalism, monasticism, purity, refrainment, repentance, sobriety, abstention, continence, |
Antonyms | debauchery, additional, allowance, clemency, courtesy, delight, dissipation, enjoyment, excess, excessive, extravagance, favor, folly, foolery, foolishness, free, good-for-nothing, grandness, gratification, heavy, |
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