Self-denial \Self`-de*ni"al\, n.
The denial of one's self; forbearing to gratify one's own
desires; self-sacrifice.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
self-denial
n 1: the trait of practicing self discipline [syn: self-discipline]
2: the act of denying yourself; controlling your impulses [syn:
self-discipline, self-control]
3: renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests
of others [syn: abnegation, self-abnegation, denial,
self-renunciation]
WordNet (r) 2.0
125 Moby Thesaurus words for "self-denial":
Albigensianism, Catharism, Franciscanism, Sabbatarianism, Trappism,
Waldensianism, Yoga, abnegation, abstaining, abstemiousness,
abstention, abstinence, altruism, anchoritic monasticism,
anchoritism, aplomb, asceticism, austerity, calm, calmness,
commitment, composure, consecration, conservatism, constraint,
continence, control, cool, dedication, denial, desisting, devotion,
discipline, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, eremitism,
evenness, fasting, flagellation, forbearance, frugality,
gentleness, giving up, golden mean, happy medium, hardship,
humility, impartiality, independence, judiciousness, juste-milieu,
lenity, maceration, magnanimity, meden agan, mendicantism,
middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism,
modesty, monachism, monasticism, mortification, neutrality,
nonviolence, nothing in excess, pacifism, possession, privation,
prudence, puritanism, refusal, refusing, renouncement, renouncing,
renunciation, repose, restraint, rigor, sacrifice, self-abasement,
self-abnegation, self-command, self-conquest, self-control,
self-devotion, self-discipline, self-effacement, self-forgetful,
self-forgetfulness, self-government, self-immolation, self-mastery,
self-mortification, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness,
self-possession, self-renouncement, self-restraint, self-sacrifice,
self-sacrificing, self-subjection, selflessness, serenity,
soberness, sobriety, sophrosyne, stability, steadiness, suffering,
swearing off, temperance, temperateness, tranquillity,
unacquisitiveness, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness,
unpossessiveness, unselfishness, via media, voluntary poverty
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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