Asceticism
Related Definitions
[n] the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
Related Terms
abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, avoidance, banyan day, celibacy, chastity, cold purgatorial fires, continence, Day of Atonement, Encratism, eschewal, fast, fasting, fish day, flagellation, Friday, fruitarianism, gymnosophy, hair shirt