self-denial
noun
• the denial of one's own interests and needs; self-sacrifice.
• "the farm has been built up over the years by hard work and self-denial"
Similar:
self-sacrifice,
selflessness,
unselfishness,
altruism,
self-discipline,
asceticism,
abnegation,
self-abnegation,
self-deprivation,
abstemiousness,
abstinence,
moderation,
austerity,
temperance,
abstention,
renunciation,
celibacy,
chastity,
teetotalism,
continence,
