What is another word for "abstinence"?
Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "abstinence": abnegation, abstain, abstainer, abstemious, abstemiousness, abstinent, acerbic, alcoholic, alone, anchoret, anchorite, and, are, ascetic, asceticism, ashes, aside, austere, austerity, away, back, cast, compass, cynic, cynical, cynicism, deny, destroy, desuetude, discard, dismantle, dismiss, dispense, disusage, disuse, done, driver, dry, eject, enough.
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- Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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