asceticism
noun
[ əˈsɛtɪsɪz(ə)m ]
• severe self-discipline and avoiding of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
• "acts of physical asceticism"
Similar:
austerity,
self-denial,
abstinence,
abstemiousness,
non-indulgence,
self-discipline,
frugality,
simplicity,
rigour,
strictness,
severity,
a hair shirt,
a spartan life,
monasticism,
monkishness,
reclusiveness,
solitude,
hermitism,
celibacy,
continence,
chastity,
puritanism,
self-abnegation,
other-worldliness,
self-mortification,
anchorism,
Opposite:
sybaritism,
