Hypertext Webster Gateway: "asceticism"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Asceticism \As*cet"i*cism\, n.
The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
asceticism
n : the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from
worldly pleasures) [syn: {austerity}, {nonindulgence}]
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