Definition for Asceticism:

• The practice of ascetics.

Synonyms for Asceticism:

• n.

  •abstinence (noun)
  • fasting,
  • chastity,
  • self-control,
  • self-restraint,
  • teetotalism,
  • renunciation,
  • sobriety,
  • continence,
  • Refraining,
  • frugality,
  • avoidance,
  • soberness,
  • Abstaining,
  • abstemiousness,
  • abnegation,
  • moderation.
  •asceticism (noun)
  • stoicism,
  • repentance,
  • celibacy,
  • parsimony,
  • miserliness,
  • starkness,
  • severity,
  • nonindulgence.
  •austerity (noun)
  • economy,
  • strictness,
  • determination.
  •celibacy (noun)
  • maidenhead,
  • Refrainment,
  • intactness,
  • solitude,
  • Priestliness,
  • spinsterhood,
  • Monkhood,
  • maidenhood,
  • bachelorhood,
  • Loneness,
  • virginity,
  • aloneness.
  •cognition (noun)
  • asceticism.
  •continence (noun)
  • virtue.
  •holiness (noun)
  • divinity,
  • spirituality,
  • religiosity,
  • virtuousness,
  • beatitude,
  • grace,
  • godliness,
  • righteousness,
  • humility,
  • faith,
  • blessedness,
  • worship,
  • consecration,
  • Inviolability,
  • reverence,
  • devoutness,
  • piety,
  • devotion.
  •poverty (noun)
  • homelessness,
  • distress,
  • poverty,
  • penury,
  • impoverishment,
  • hardship,
  • mendicancy,
  • paucity,
  • destitution,
  • pennilessness,
  • famine,
  • Beggarliness,
  • privation,
  • insolvency,
  • poorness,
  • tenuity,
  • bankruptcy,
  • want,
  • lack,
  • embarrassment,
  • insufficiency,
  • pauperism,
  • dearth,
  • indigence.
  •sanctity (noun)
  • mercy,
  • religiousness,
  • solemnity,
  • hallowedness,
  • goodness.
  •self-denial (noun)
  • ascetic.
  •soberness (noun)
  • dryness.
  •temperance (noun)
  • forgoing,
  • conservatism,
  • astringency,
  • unintoxication,
  • moderatism,
  • eschewal,
  • happy medium,
  • self-deprivation,
  • golden mean,
  • discretion,
  • conservation,
  • restraint,
  • reasonableness,
  • mortification,
  • prohibition,
  • sacrifice,
  • sober-mindedness,
  • moderateness,
  • measure,
  • constraint,
  • control,
  • uninebriation.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • abstinence,
  • austerity,
  • chasteness,
  • forbearance,
  • holiness,
  • prudence,
  • puritanism,
  • purity,
  • sacredness,
  • saintliness,
  • sanctity,
  • self-abnegation,
  • self-denial,
  • self-discipline,
  • self-sacrifice,
  • selflessness,
  • temperance,
  • unction,
  • Divineness,
  • ascetics,
  • sacrosanctity,
  • Venerableness,
  • fastings,
  • selfcontrol.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abrasiveness,
  • absoluteness,
  • abstainer,
  • adoration,
  • adorn,
  • adversity,
  • agony,
  • altruism,
  • amount,
  • apostasy,
  • appraise,
  • ascendance,
  • ascendancy,
  • ascendence,
  • ascendency,
  • ascertain,
  • ascetical,
  • asperity,
  • assess,
  • assure,
  • astringence,
  • austere,
  • awe,
  • badness,
  • balm,
  • ban,
  • bar,
  • beat,
  • beatification,
  • beautify,
  • beggary,
  • bill,
  • bleakness,
  • blessing,
  • bonyness,
  • cadence,
  • catharsis,
  • chagrin,
  • check,
  • church property,
  • circumspection,
  • clearness,
  • clemency,
  • closeness,
  • cogency,
  • command,
  • conclusion,
  • conservativism,
  • contain,
  • continency,
  • control condition,
  • controller,
  • criterion,
  • crudity,
  • cruelness,
  • cruelty,
  • curb,
  • debauched,
  • decision,
  • deck,
  • decorate,
  • defection,
  • deficiency,
  • degenerate,
  • degraded,
  • deity,
  • delicacy,
  • denial,
  • deprivation,
  • desire,
  • desolation,
  • devotedness,
  • discernment,
  • discreetness,
  • dispassion,
  • dispassionateness,
  • dissipated,
  • dissolute,
  • distraint,
  • divinity fudge,
  • dodging,
  • dominance,
  • ease,
  • easiness,
  • easing,
  • economic system,
  • emaciation,
  • embellish,
  • ensure,
  • evaluate,
  • excruciation,
  • exiguity,
  • failure,
  • fear,
  • feebleness,
  • finding,
  • firm,
  • flogging,
  • flying,
  • forbiddance,
  • forfeit,
  • forfeiture,
  • forsaking,
  • forswearing,
  • free grace,
  • free will,
  • fri,
  • frugalness,
  • fulsomeness,
  • gangrene,
  • gaucheness,
  • gauntness,
  • girlhood,
  • give,
  • golden section,
  • good,
  • good will,
  • goodwill,
  • grace of god,
  • gravity,
  • grimness,
  • hardness,
  • hold,
  • hold in,
  • homeliness,
  • honor,
  • honour,
  • humbleness,
  • humiliation,
  • hurt,
  • hymen,
  • idolise,
  • idolize,
  • immobile,
  • immortal,
  • impecuniousness,
  • inadequacy,
  • inclemency,
  • inhibition,
  • innocence,
  • insure,
  • inunction,
  • katharsis,
  • keep in line,
  • lashing,
  • leanness,
  • libertine,
  • limpidity,
  • loneliness,
  • lonesomeness,
  • longanimity,
  • loyal,
  • lucidity,
  • maidhood,
  • manipulate,
  • master,
  • mastery,
  • meagerness,
  • meagreness,
  • meanness,
  • measure out,
  • measurement,
  • measuring,
  • measuring rod,
  • measuring stick,
  • mensurate,
  • mensuration,
  • mercifulness,
  • merit,
  • meter,
  • metre,
  • minginess,
  • miserable,
  • miss,
  • mitigation,
  • moderate,
  • modestness,
  • moral excellence,
  • nakedness,
  • necrosis,
  • need,
  • niggardliness,
  • oiliness,
  • ointment,
  • oleaginousness,
  • operate,
  • ornament,
  • otherworldliness,
  • overplus,
  • parsimoniousness,
  • patience,
  • pauperisation,
  • pauperization,
  • pellucidity,
  • penny-pinching,
  • penuriousness,
  • perspicuity,
  • perspicuousness,
  • pietism,
  • piousness,
  • plethora,
  • possession,
  • preservation,
  • primitivism,
  • profligate,
  • prohibition era,
  • proscription,
  • purdah,
  • pureness,
  • purge,
  • purging,
  • purification,
  • purpose,
  • quantify,
  • quantity,
  • quick,
  • rarity,
  • rationality,
  • reason,
  • relief,
  • religion,
  • religious belief,
  • renouncement,
  • repudiation,
  • require,
  • reserve,
  • restrict,
  • revere,
  • riotous,
  • ritual killing,
  • roughness,
  • rudeness,
  • salve,
  • saving,
  • saving grace,
  • scantiness,
  • scantness,
  • scratchiness,
  • sedateness,
  • see,
  • see to it,
  • seemliness,
  • self-abasement,
  • self-command,
  • self-possession,
  • self-renunciation,
  • self-will,
  • severeness,
  • sexual abstention,
  • sexual morality,
  • shortage,
  • shunning,
  • simple mindedness,
  • simpleness,
  • sinlessness,
  • slenderness,
  • smarm,
  • smarminess,
  • solemness,
  • solitariness,
  • somberness,
  • sombreness,
  • sparsity,
  • spartan,
  • sphacelus,
  • spiritualism,
  • spiritualty,
  • staidness,
  • standard,
  • state of grace,
  • step,
  • stiffness,
  • stolidity,
  • stolidness,
  • straiten,
  • stringency,
  • stypsis,
  • superfluity,
  • surrender,
  • tanning,
  • teetotaling,
  • temperateness,
  • tenability,
  • tenableness,
  • thanksgiving,
  • theology,
  • thinness,
  • thrift,
  • thriftiness,
  • tight,
  • tightfistedness,
  • tightness,
  • touchstone,
  • truehearted,
  • trust,
  • turning away,
  • uncloudedness,
  • unctuousness,
  • unguent,
  • validity,
  • valuate,
  • value,
  • venerate,
  • veneration,
  • verify,
  • virginal membrane,
  • waterlessness,
  • whipping,
  • whiteness,
  • willpower,
  • wish,
  • wishing,
  • woe,
  • wretched,
  • xerotes,
  • yielding,
  • cultism,
  • religiousism,
  • centrism,
  • hard knocks,
  • grace period,
  • god,
  • will power,
  • simmpleness,
  • rigourousness,
  • organized religion,
  • hero-worship,
  • low density.

Paraphrases for Asceticism:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    austerity.

Antonyms for Asceticism:

• n.

  • abstinence
    indulgence, revelry, intoxication, drunkenness, self-indulgence, intemperance, excess.
  • austerity
    elaborateness, gentility, blandness, luxuriousness, spending, extravagance, calmness, meekness, mildness.
  • continence
    wildness.
  • holiness
    atheism, sin, unholiness, wickedness, agnosticism.
  • sacredness
    impiety, irreverence.
  • sanctity
    meanness.
  • temperance
    allowance, carelessness, permission, rashness, agitation.

Asceticism Sentence Examples:

• His face was emaciated with a self - denial that bordered upon asceticism, and wan with ceaseless contemplations of the problems of life, death and immortality.

• It was these that asceticism evoked.

Homophones for Asceticism:

• aesthetician, aztecan, astigmia, acoustician.

Hyponym for Asceticism:

• n.

  • cognition
    ism, philosophy, school of thought, philosophical system, doctrine.