asceticism

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: as=cet=i=cism

CIDE DICTIONARY

asceticism, n. 

 The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

asceticism

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.