Abstinence

Noun

 * 1) The act or practice of abstaining, refraining from indulging a desire.
 * 2) Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating/alcoholic beverages (also called total abstinence, teetotalism).
 * 3) Specifically, the practice of abstaining from sexual intercourse, either permanently or until marriage.
 * 4) The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self (partly or totally) of certain kinds of food or drink, especially meat.

Adjectives for Abstinence
bigoted; excessive; prolonged; total; rash; systematic; forced;  holy;  marked;  firm; strict; self-enforced ; austere; cautious; pernicious; absolute; recurrent; partial;  half-hearted; protracted; extreme; habitual.

Synonyms for Abstinence
abstention, continence, self-denial, temperance, fasting, frugality, self-control, abstaining, self-restraint, sobriety, forbearance.

Antonyms for Abstinence
excess, greed, self-indulgence, intemperance, gluttony.

Thesaurus
abstention, continence, puritanism; refraining; refrainment; renunciation; repose; restraint; restriction of intake; retirement; rigor; self-abnegation; self-control; self-denial; self-mortification; self-restraint; serenity; sexual abstinence; simple diet; sobriety; spare diet; stability; starvation; steadiness; superannuation; teetotalism; temperance; temperateness; the pledge; total abstinence; tranquillity; unexcessiveness; unextravagance; unextremeness; unprevalence; vegetarianism; via media; virginity; voluntary poverty; Albigensianism; Catharism; Encratism; Franciscanism; Friday; Lenten fare; Platonic love; Pythagoreanism; Pythagorism; Rechabitism; Sabbatarianism; Shakerism; Spartan fare; Stoicism; Trappism; Waldensianism; Yoga; abnegation; abstainment; abstemiousness; abstention; abstinence from food; anchoritic monasticism; anchoritism; asceticism; austerity; avoidance; banyan day; calm; calmness; celibacy; chastity; conservatism; constraint; continence; continency; control; cool; desuetude; dispassion; disuse; eremitism; eschewal; evenness; fast; fasting; fish day; flagellation; fruitarianism; gentleness; golden mean; gymnosophy; happy medium; impartiality; intactness; judiciousness; juste-milieu; lenity; maceration; maidenhead; maidenhood; meden agan; mendicantism; middle way; mildness; moderateness; moderation; moderationism; monachism; monasticism; mortification; nephalism; neutrality; nonemployment; nonprevalence; nonuse; nonviolence; nothing in excess; obsolescence; obsoleteness; obsoletion; obsoletism; pacifism; pensioning off; plain living; prudence; punishment of Tantalus;

Etymology
From the abstinence, from the  abstinentia, from abstinere; see abstain.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: възържание
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: pidättyminen, pidättyvyys
 * French: abstinence
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: avhold, avholdenhet


 * Polish: abstynencja, wstrzemięźliwość
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: воздержание
 * Serbian: uzdržljivost, samoodricanje, uzdržavanje, umerenost, trezvenost, trezvenjaštvo
 * Spanish:, abstinencia
 * Swedish: avhållsamhet


 * Bulgarian: трезвеност
 * Dutch: alcoholonthouding, geheelonthouding (more frequent)
 * Finnish:, täysraittius
 * French: abstinence
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Norwegian: avhold, avholdenhet
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: воздержание, трезвенность, абстиненция
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: pidättyvyys
 * French: abstinence
 * German: Keuschheit
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: avhold, avholdenhet


 * Polish: wstrzemięźliwość
 * Portuguese: abstinência sexual
 * Russian: воздержание, абстиненция
 * Swedish: avhållsamhet, kyskhet


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: pidättyvyys,
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: avhold, avholdenhet
 * Spanish:


 * : abstinence
 * : abstinentia
 * : abstinentia de alcohol
 * : abstinencia
 * : abstinencia del alcohol