Definition for Abstinence:

• The practice of self- denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.

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.
  •restraint (noun)
  • self-government,
  • withholdings,
  • restraint,
  • self-discipline.
  •restraint from desires, especially physical desires (noun)
  • fasting,
  • soberness,
  • self-restraint,
  • Abstaining,
  • self-control,
  • teetotalism,
  • continence,
  • frugality,
  • sobriety,
  • temperance,
  • self-denial,
  • moderation.
  •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.

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.

Abstinence Sentence Examples:

• Early next morning he organised what he called a " Little Drops of Water League," and a juvenile branch of the Independent Order of Good Templars, entitled the " Deeds not Words Lodge of Tiny Knights of Abstinence."

• Brooding ceaselessly over these problems, he at the same time lowered his physical strength by abstinence, living upon bread, milk, and vegetables, giving up meat and wine.

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.