Asceticism
[n] the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
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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