Abstemiousness
81sobriety — *temperance, abstinence, abstemiousness, continence Analogous words: moderateness, temperateness (see corresponding adjectives at MODERATE): quietness, stillness (see corresponding adjectives at STILL): seriousness, gravity, somberness,… …
82abstinence — n 1. teetotalism, nephalism, temperance, sobriety, soberness; prohibition, blue ribbonism; Rechabitism. 2. abstention, nonindulgence, abstemiousness, moderation, continence, celibacy, fasting; Puritanism, austerity, self mortification, self… …
83asceticism — n self denial, self abnegation, self mortification; mortification of the flesh, self punishment, self torment, self laceration, flagellation, scourging, flagellantism; abstinence, fasting, penance, sackcloth and ashes, monasticism, self… …
84austerity — n 1. severity, harshness, asperity, strictness; hardness, sternness, grimness, seriousness, sobriety, soberness; formality, stiffness, inflexibility, unbendingness, rigidity, rigidness, tightness, rigor, rig orousness; relentlessness,… …
85chastity — n 1. chasteness, virtue, virtuousness, goodness; innocence, innocency, modesty, Rare. pudicity; purity, pureness, untouchedness, uncor ruptedness; freshness, cleanness, spotlessness, stain lessness, immaculacy, immaculateness. 2. celibacy,… …
86continence — n 1. continency, chastity, celibacy, purity; virginity, virtue, innocence, innocency. 2. temperance, temperateness, moderation, moderateness, avoidance of extremes; restraint, self restraint, self control; refrainment, refraining, forbearance,… …
87curb — n 1. border, edge, margin, skirt, rim, lip, periphery, verge; brow, brink, ridge, ledge; curbstone, Brit. kerb. 2. frame, framework, enclosure, boundary; confines, bounds, limits, sides; wall, fence, railing, rail, post, picket, palisade, barrier …
88frugality — n 1. sparingness, frugalness, thrift, thriftiness; husbandry, careful management, conservation; conserving, saving, economizing, economy; moderation, temperance, self control, self restraint; abstemiousness, abstinence, abstention, self denial,… …
89moderation — n 1. temperance, temperateness, moderateness, avoidance of extremes; restraint, self restraint, self control; refrainment, forbearance, desis tance; abstention, nonindulgence, abstemiousness, continence. 2. happy medium, golden mean, Latin, aurea …
90Puritanism — n 1. hyperorthodoxy, precisianism, dogmatism, zealotry; strictness, severity, grimness, authoritarianism, sternness, intolerance, narrow mindedness, bigotry. 2. austerity, asceticism, self denial, rigor, sobriety, abstinence, abstemiousness,… …
