Synonyms for Abstinence:

• n.

  •
  • puritanism,
  • Refraining,
  • nonindulgence,
  • keeping aloof,
  • Desistance,
  • renunciation,
  • withholding.
  •
  • Drugs,
  • used.
  •abnegation (noun)
  • giving ups,
  • nixings,
  • sur render,
  • sur-render,
  • eschewals,
  • selfdenial,
  • self denial,
  • sur-renders,
  • sur renders.
  •abstemiousness (noun)
  • temperatenesses.
  •abstention (noun)
  • selfcontrol,
  • non-indulgence.
  •act (noun)
  • abstinence.
  •asceticism (noun)
  • severity,
  • parsimony,
  • stoicism,
  • starkness,
  • miserliness,
  • abstemiousness,
  • celibacy,
  • repentance.
  •avoidance (noun)
  • evasion,
  • escape,
  • flight,
  • declination,
  • shirking,
  • retreat,
  • circumvention,
  • avoidance,
  • elusion,
  • disdain.
  •birth control (noun)
  • contraception,
  • conception prevention,
  • diaphragm,
  • birth prevention,
  • Vasectomies,
  • rubbers,
  • method of preventing pregnancy,
  • tied tubes,
  • rhythm method,
  • IUDs,
  • vasectomy,
  • Planned Parenthood,
  • Diaphragms.
  •celibacy (noun)
  • spinsterhood,
  • solitude,
  • Loneness,
  • intactness,
  • Priestliness,
  • Monkhood,
  • bachelorhood,
  • aloneness,
  • purity,
  • maidenhead.
  •chastity (noun)
  • immaculacies,
  • monogamies,
  • up rightness,
  • up-rightness,
  • chastenesses,
  • spotlessnesses,
  • sinlessnesses,
  • up-rightnesses,
  • up rightnesses.
  •continence (noun)
  • asceticism.
  •diet (noun)
  • diet.
  •fast (noun)
  • fastings.
  •forbearance (noun)
  • longanimities,
  • patientnesses,
  • going easy ons,
  • living withs.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • maidenhood,
  • Refrainment,
  • astringency,
  • longanimity,
  • abnegation,
  • innocence,
  • ascetics,
  • fast,
  • going easy on,
  • monogamy,
  • forgoing,
  • uninebriation,
  • spotlessness,
  • eschewal,
  • self-deprivation,
  • reasonableness,
  • virtuousness,
  • sinlessness,
  • abstention,
  • chastity,
  • nixing,
  • chasteness,
  • virginity,
  • temperateness,
  • immaculacy,
  • unintoxication,
  • living with,
  • birth control,
  • refusal,
  • moderatism,
  • astringencies,
  • forbearance,
  • moderateness,
  • patientness.
  •restraint (noun)
  • self-government,
  • withholdings,
  • restraint,
  • self-discipline.
  •restraint from desires, especially physical desires (noun)
  • moderation,
  • teetotalism,
  • frugality,
  • temperance,
  • sobriety,
  • self-denial,
  • soberness.
  •soberness (noun)
  • selfdeprivation,
  • selfdeprivations,
  • un-intoxications,
  • un intoxication,
  • self deprivations,
  • un-inebriation,
  • refrainments,
  • un inebriation,
  • moderatisms,
  • reasonablenesses,
  • un-inebriations,
  • unintoxications,
  • un inebriations,
  • self-deprivations,
  • uninebriations,
  • un-intoxication,
  • forgoings,
  • self deprivation,
  • un intoxications.
  •sobriety (noun)
  • dryness,
  • denial,
  • control.
  •temperance (noun)
  • prudence,
  • sober-mindedness,
  • austerity,
  • conservation.
  •virginity (noun)
  • maidenhoods.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • surrender,
  • New Year's resolution,
  • disuse,
  • sacrifice.
  •
  • enjoyment,
  • desire.
  •Other relevant words:
  • ok,
  • business organization,
  • pretermit,
  • concern,
  • cutting,
  • contraceptive diaphragm,
  • woe,
  • golden section,
  • flogging,
  • chagrin,
  • accolade,
  • prevent,
  • pull out,
  • business concern,
  • condescension,
  • drama,
  • hind,
  • track,
  • nonpayment,
  • extract,
  • fledge,
  • penitence,
  • contain,
  • tread,
  • waggon,
  • foreshorten,
  • take to the woods,
  • feed,
  • footprint,
  • imprecate,
  • tanning,
  • hand,
  • family planning,
  • cogency,
  • free pardon,
  • stifling,
  • sedateness,
  • circumspection,
  • severeness,
  • rationality,
  • rationalise,
  • break loose,
  • curve,
  • block up,
  • gambling,
  • romp,
  • ignore,
  • declension,
  • relief,
  • shorten,
  • burn,
  • calendar method of birth control,
  • despise,
  • leave out,
  • gravitational force,
  • equal,
  • rival,
  • retirement benefit,
  • bread and butter,
  • affect,
  • reach,
  • contract,
  • break,
  • hint,
  • bank,
  • nerveless,
  • rachis,
  • loneliness,
  • rearward,
  • fingerbreadth,
  • twist,
  • full point,
  • light,
  • patrol wagon,
  • artlessness,
  • cool down,
  • swan,
  • clientele,
  • constancy,
  • prohibition era,
  • edit,
  • chill,
  • pluck,
  • pessary,
  • block,
  • sombreness,
  • necrosis,
  • distress,
  • footfall,
  • sheer,
  • hightail it,
  • cutting off,
  • degenerate,
  • perpetrate,
  • hunky-dory,
  • full stop,
  • contemn,
  • adversity,
  • throw,
  • swordplay,
  • unagitated,
  • serious,
  • quick,
  • preserve,
  • nonperformance,
  • moral excellence,
  • business sector,
  • hold open,
  • tenableness,
  • forswearing,
  • excision,
  • sustain,
  • discontinue,
  • drab,
  • pace,
  • skin senses,
  • depend,
  • cut of meat,
  • springiness,
  • lull,
  • lay,
  • regrets,
  • ban,
  • contraceptive method,
  • line,
  • catch,
  • eluding,
  • miserable,
  • gangrene,
  • still,
  • blaspheme,
  • reason,
  • terminate,
  • lam,
  • bet,
  • passivism,
  • escape valve,
  • footmark,
  • crushing,
  • leave,
  • kick in,
  • validity,
  • partake,
  • undercut,
  • flirt,
  • turn out,
  • veer,
  • ease up,
  • fiddle,
  • point,
  • finish,
  • deliver,
  • all right,
  • occlusive,
  • cool off,
  • trust,
  • layover,
  • discreetness,
  • make,
  • ascendancy,
  • escapism,
  • dance step,
  • dry,
  • barricade,
  • police wagon,
  • write out,
  • humiliation,
  • emaciation,
  • closeness,
  • firmness,
  • safety valve,
  • blockage,
  • peace of mind,
  • support,
  • backrest,
  • rhythm method of birth control,
  • relaxation,
  • implore,
  • open,
  • footstep,
  • commit,
  • frolic,
  • solicit,
  • monogamousness,
  • save,
  • put down,
  • mite,
  • trim,
  • ingenuousness,
  • make out,
  • solitaire,
  • goofing off,
  • stage business,
  • adjoin,
  • depose,
  • calm air,
  • toy,
  • slip,
  • celestial latitude,
  • bring,
  • ascendency,
  • living,
  • goldbricking,
  • move back,
  • hinder,
  • whiteness,
  • grimness,
  • spiel,
  • stir,
  • bear upon,
  • book binding,
  • fine,
  • gravitation,
  • sagacity,
  • defense,
  • geld,
  • respect,
  • plunk for,
  • speck,
  • signature,
  • dieting,
  • exploited,
  • puff,
  • pray,
  • sunshine,
  • count,
  • clout,
  • moderate,
  • abbreviate,
  • forsaking,
  • gift,
  • disinterest,
  • turn over,
  • poise,
  • act as,
  • fall,
  • stinger,
  • insure,
  • break away,
  • represent,
  • snub,
  • dodging,
  • simplicity,
  • turn,
  • leak,
  • pay,
  • stolidity,
  • ill-use,
  • decline,
  • take on,
  • leakage,
  • curb,
  • solemness,
  • flight of stairs,
  • preservation,
  • inclemency,
  • intercept,
  • occupation,
  • ill-treat,
  • sagaciousness,
  • backbone,
  • retirement check,
  • sexual morality,
  • playing period,
  • conservativism,
  • withdraw,
  • child's play,
  • plosive,
  • steady,
  • founder,
  • survival,
  • hymen,
  • abuse,
  • recline,
  • forbiddance,
  • closure,
  • hold back,
  • thrift,
  • forgiveness,
  • graveness,
  • maidhood,
  • sombre,
  • rip out,
  • mitigation,
  • somberness,
  • whipping,
  • purdah,
  • becalm,
  • repudiation,
  • get away,
  • deletion,
  • chip in,
  • ascendance,
  • get off,
  • master,
  • stiffness,
  • contribute,
  • switch off,
  • spinal column,
  • slacking,
  • descent,
  • reckon,
  • devote,
  • retirement fund,
  • grant,
  • turn down,
  • swing,
  • cave in,
  • quieten,
  • kibosh,
  • girlhood,
  • self-rule,
  • hideaway,
  • job,
  • baseball swing,
  • dominance,
  • retain,
  • inactivity,
  • equanimity,
  • debauched,
  • halt,
  • digit,
  • pertain,
  • leniency,
  • fun,
  • displume,
  • stay fresh,
  • relate,
  • pass,
  • rigorousness,
  • afford,
  • immaculateness,
  • virginal membrane,
  • self-will,
  • penny-pinching,
  • ascesis,
  • tone,
  • touch modality,
  • restrict,
  • outflow,
  • big dipper,
  • binding,
  • relinquishing,
  • agony,
  • soldiering,
  • meanness,
  • whole tone,
  • crawfish,
  • extend to,
  • drop,
  • old-age pension,
  • slice,
  • quit,
  • indorse,
  • match,
  • gravitational attraction,
  • diddle,
  • passive resistance,
  • dramatic play,
  • hand truck,
  • pull up,
  • finger's breadth,
  • have to do with,
  • penance,
  • swerve,
  • dispassionateness,
  • mercy,
  • secondhand,
  • rend,
  • issue,
  • wager,
  • cold shoulder,
  • cutaneous senses,
  • renouncement,
  • defection,
  • operate,
  • trim down,
  • come to,
  • dipper,
  • disturb,
  • look,
  • starving,
  • reject,
  • honour,
  • excuse,
  • act,
  • mown,
  • refer,
  • cover,
  • collapse,
  • proceed,
  • calculate,
  • chicken out,
  • have,
  • edit out,
  • slue,
  • solitariness,
  • neglectfulness,
  • end,
  • pull away,
  • dissolute,
  • tear out,
  • settle down,
  • fair weather,
  • coolheaded,
  • rigourousness,
  • escape cock,
  • slashed,
  • niggardliness,
  • tactile sensation,
  • trace,
  • carelessness,
  • police van,
  • recreate,
  • depone,
  • encounter,
  • estate car,
  • arrest,
  • rhythm,
  • quelling,
  • cede,
  • want,
  • turn off,
  • tenability,
  • hard knocks,
  • blockade,
  • occlusion,
  • pass on,
  • award,
  • mercifulness,
  • pinch,
  • weakened,
  • sang-froid,
  • dilute,
  • hold on,
  • rely,
  • delectation,
  • capitulation,
  • sedate,
  • chill out,
  • rearwards,
  • pull in one's horns,
  • ease,
  • absoluteness,
  • keep in line,
  • give way,
  • pulling,
  • spring,
  • avow,
  • run away,
  • celebrate,
  • hold in,
  • fly the coop,
  • stolidness,
  • self-determination,
  • plump for,
  • retirement pension,
  • quiet,
  • serene,
  • contact,
  • calm down,
  • resignation,
  • consecrate,
  • plosive consonant,
  • lashing,
  • equivocation,
  • maneuver,
  • softness,
  • deprivation,
  • defence,
  • tightness,
  • shunning,
  • flying,
  • aver,
  • draw back,
  • riotous,
  • overlook,
  • trifle,
  • fri,
  • keep back,
  • sphacelus,
  • command,
  • gage,
  • donjon,
  • block off,
  • scarper,
  • wain,
  • trim back,
  • station wagon,
  • thin,
  • go on,
  • solemn,
  • period,
  • jot,
  • affirm,
  • peacefulness,
  • amnesty,
  • get out,
  • stop consonant,
  • meet,
  • slew,
  • advert,
  • gauntness,
  • punt,
  • excruciation,
  • byplay,
  • keep open,
  • bring down,
  • bet on,
  • establish,
  • ritual killing,
  • degraded,
  • make for,
  • willpower,
  • overleap,
  • will power,
  • self-renunciation,
  • thin out,
  • put-upon,
  • reduce,
  • chorus,
  • declivity,
  • tactual sensation,
  • business enterprise,
  • manipulate,
  • beach wagon,
  • calendar method,
  • scat,
  • check,
  • hope,
  • break off,
  • hold,
  • touch on,
  • asperity,
  • back up,
  • mastery,
  • apply,
  • retire,
  • xerotes,
  • staidness,
  • plough,
  • draw out,
  • trimmed,
  • simmer down,
  • downslope,
  • bear on,
  • assuredness,
  • caper,
  • pacificism,
  • maintain,
  • self-abasement,
  • stopover,
  • period of play,
  • patronage,
  • cool it,
  • coaster wagon,
  • forfeiture,
  • assert,
  • gambol,
  • omit,
  • hurt,
  • bunk,
  • composure,
  • easing,
  • naturalness,
  • tap,
  • curse,
  • miss,
  • ghost,
  • firm,
  • hitch,
  • unplayful,
  • turn tail,
  • libertine,
  • stop over,
  • slash,
  • back down,
  • allude,
  • drag,
  • retrograde,
  • self-command,
  • ascertain,
  • forfeit,
  • paddy wagon,
  • abridge,
  • free rein,
  • commercial enterprise,
  • draw,
  • wrench,
  • hack,
  • badness,
  • bid,
  • astringence,
  • merit,
  • pull back,
  • soupcon,
  • go along,
  • passivity,
  • continent,
  • nonpartisanship,
  • rive,
  • return,
  • ataraxis,
  • yielding,
  • tranquility,
  • disregard,
  • aplomb,
  • pooh-pooh,
  • relief valve,
  • modestness,
  • feeling,
  • parsimoniousness,
  • quietness,
  • shimmer,
  • sustenance,
  • elude,
  • contempt,
  • cease,
  • centrism,
  • sober up,
  • feel,
  • crawfish out,
  • assure,
  • sense of touch,
  • trajectory,
  • maltreat,
  • stoppage,
  • tinct,
  • stypsis,
  • restrain,
  • minginess,
  • move over,
  • sport,
  • desertion,
  • discretion,
  • cuss,
  • nonviolent resistance,
  • tranquillize,
  • tailor,
  • present,
  • endorse,
  • looseness,
  • backwards,
  • invariability,
  • backward,
  • use,
  • bar,
  • loyal,
  • heartsease,
  • motortruck,
  • hardness,
  • attract,
  • curtailment,
  • gradualness,
  • lenience,
  • gelded,
  • flight of steps,
  • dungeon,
  • spurn,
  • see,
  • inactiveness,
  • apostasy,
  • dally,
  • turning away,
  • victimized,
  • mistreat,
  • forebear,
  • cut off,
  • waterlessness,
  • tight,
  • victimised,
  • pureness,
  • touch sensation,
  • simpleness,
  • keep on,
  • freeze off,
  • whole step,
  • line of work,
  • thumb,
  • back out,
  • frugalness,
  • self-possession,
  • impact,
  • stair,
  • compromise,
  • placidity,
  • cut down,
  • give up,
  • reward,
  • work,
  • run,
  • observe,
  • negligence,
  • truehearted,
  • continue,
  • lonesomeness,
  • withholding tax,
  • draw in,
  • stay,
  • stableness,
  • roleplay,
  • harshness,
  • plosive speech sound,
  • discontinuation,
  • deplume,
  • root for,
  • ill-used,
  • bonyness,
  • manoeuvre,
  • austereness,
  • rear,
  • skip,
  • bareness,
  • get by,
  • scorn,
  • reside,
  • fail,
  • recede,
  • stone's throw,
  • yield,
  • profligate,
  • rationalize,
  • touching,
  • demurrer,
  • second,
  • fall in,
  • ascendence,
  • tear,
  • famishment,
  • tranquillise,
  • overstretch,
  • see to it,
  • ensure,
  • dec,
  • dedicate,
  • spine,
  • deplumate,
  • rest,
  • take out,
  • wretched,
  • tranquil,
  • tint,
  • tinge,
  • playact,
  • thinned,
  • controller,
  • stride,
  • cut back,
  • abide by,
  • bow out,
  • immobile,
  • game,
  • somber,
  • emasculated,
  • turn back,
  • generate,
  • dorsum,
  • render,
  • grave,
  • rip,
  • spot,
  • control condition,
  • tightfistedness,
  • back away,
  • quietude,
  • stake,
  • lay off,
  • tranquilize,
  • despite,
  • head for the hills,
  • measure,
  • laurels,
  • peace,
  • proscription,
  • okay,
  • vertebral column,
  • shortened,
  • wreak,
  • livelihood,
  • verify,
  • gradation,
  • trend,
  • midriff,
  • dissipated,
  • impart,
  • possession,
  • gaming,
  • pull in,
  • prune,
  • gash.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • cleanness,
  • patience,
  • solemnity,
  • lenity,
  • prohibition,
  • anchoritism,
  • Renouncing,
  • serenity,
  • maceration,
  • discontinuance,
  • passiveness,
  • moderationism,
  • Obsoletism,
  • calm,
  • yoga,
  • Sabbatarianism,
  • Disusage,
  • neutrality,
  • steadiness,
  • abandonment,
  • neglect,
  • evenness,
  • stability,
  • repose,
  • banyan day,
  • cynicism,
  • desuetude,
  • happy medium,
  • anchoritic monasticism,
  • continency,
  • noninterference,
  • going without,
  • Eremitism,
  • nonuse,
  • Abstinency,
  • golden mean,
  • inaction,
  • relinquishment,
  • privation,
  • via media,
  • self-control,
  • Monachism,
  • middle way,
  • vegetarianism,
  • self-abnegation,
  • rigour,
  • gentleness,
  • suffering,
  • continence,
  • absticence,
  • swearing off,
  • mildness,
  • Nephalism,
  • pacifism,
  • conservatism,
  • pardon,
  • self-restraint,
  • voluntary poverty,
  • retirement,
  • abstainment,
  • endurance,
  • honor,
  • judiciousness,
  • giving up,
  • Desisting,
  • Abstaining,
  • dispassion,
  • fruitarianism,
  • calmness,
  • flagellation,
  • superannuation,
  • cool,
  • Refusing,
  • suppression,
  • constraint,
  • nonviolence,
  • monasticism,
  • nonemployment,
  • nonintervention,
  • gymnosophy,
  • clemency,
  • tranquillity,
  • starvation,
  • fasting,
  • obsolescence,
  • keeping away from,
  • hardship,
  • hunger strike,
  • gravity,
  • virtue,
  • rigor,
  • abstinence from food,
  • impartiality,
  • self-mortification,
  • mortification,
  • pensioning off,
  • obsoleteness.

Paraphrases for Abstinence:

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    withdrawal.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    abstention, sobriety, forbearance.

Antonyms for Abstinence:

• n.

  • restraint from desires, especially physical desires
    intemperance, indulgence, drunkenness.
  • Other antonyms:
    licentiousness, sensuality, rapaciousness, Whoring, self-indulgence, greed, Wenching, rapacity, intoxication, voracity, wantonness, hedonism, excess, lechery, voraciousness, gluttony, Venery, revelry.

Homophones for Abstinence:

• abstemious, apache dance, affectedness, appositeness, affecting.

Hypernym for Abstinence:

• n.

  • act
    chastity, suppression, sobriety, sawm, inhibition, teetotalism, celibacy, fast, teetotaling, temperance, sexual abstention, fasting.

Hyponym for Abstinence:

• n.

  • act
    self-discipline, self-denial, self-control.