Abstention

Noun

 * 1) The act of abstaining; a holding aloof

Thesaurus
Encratism; Friday; Lenten fare; Pythagoreanism; Pythagorism; Rechabitism; Shakerism; Spartan fare; Stoicism; abstainment; abstemiousness; abstinence; anythingarianism; asceticism; avoidance; banyan day; celibacy; chastity; continence; cop-out; desuetude; disuse; eschewal; evasion; fast; fence-sitting; fish day; fruitarianism; gymnosophy; impartiality; independence; mugwumpery; mugwumpism; nephalism; neutralism; neutrality; nonalignment; noncommitment; nonemployment; noninvolvement; nonpartisanism; nonprevalence; nonuse; nothingarianism; obsolescence; obsoleteness; obsoletion; obsoletism; pensioning off; plain living; refraining; refrainment; retirement; sexual abstinence; simple diet; spare diet; strict neutrality; superannuation; teetotalism; the pledge; total abstinence; unprevalence; vegetarianism