Asceticism

Definition: Asceticism

Asceticism

Noun

1. The trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures).

Date "asceticism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	To dream of asceticism, denotes that you will cultivate strange principles and views, rendering yourself fascinating to strangers, but repulsive to friends. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
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Synonyms: Asceticism

Synonyms: austerity (n), nonindulgence (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Asceticism	Noun: asceticism, puritanism, sabbatarianism; cynicism, austerity; total abstinence; nephalism.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Asceticism

English words defined with "asceticism": gymnosophy ♦ Jainism, Jovinianist ♦ monasticism ♦ Sufism. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A Queer Chivalry: The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Victorian Literature and Culture Series) (reference) Asceticism (reference) Asceticism in Ancient India: In Brahmanical, Buddhist, Jaina and Ajivika Societies (From the Earliest Times to the Period of Sankaracharya) (reference) Holy Men and Hunger Artists: Fasting and Asceticism in Rabbinic Culture (reference) Indian Alchemy or Rasayana: In the Light of Asceticism and Geriatrics (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Asceticism - A Portrait of jazz (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. (reference)
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"Asceticism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Asceticism" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	45	50,900

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Language		Translations for "asceticism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		asketizëm. (various references)

Arabic		‏زهد (abstain, induce to abstain, plainness, renounce, soberness, temperance), ‏الزهد. (various references)

Bulgarian		аскетизъм. (various references)

Czech		askeze. (various references)

Danish		askese. (various references)

Dutch		ascese. (various references)

Finnish		lihankidutus. (various references)

French		ascétisme, ascèse, tempérance. (various references)

German		askese. (various references)

Greek		ασκητισμός (anchoritism). (various references)

Hebrew		פרישות (abstention, abstinence, celibacy, continence, parting), �"� זרות (abstinence, temperance), ס�'פ� ות, � זירות (abstinence, seclusion). (various references)

Hungarian		önsanyargatás (mortification, mortifying, penance). (various references)

Italian		ascetismo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�'行 , 行ない (action, behavior, conduct, deed), 行い (action, behavior, conduct, deed), 禁欲主義 (stoicism). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		お�"ない (action, behavior, conduct, deed), き�"よくしゅぎ (stoicism), あらぎょう. (various references)

Manx		aseeticys. (various references)

Pig Latin		asceticismay

Portuguese		ascetismo, ascese. (various references)

Romanian		ascetism (austerity, monasticism), schimnicie. (various references)

Russian		аскетизм. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		asketizam (austerity), isposništvo (austerity). (various references)

Spanish		ascetismo. (various references)

Swedish		askes. (various references)

Turkish		sofuluk (devoutness, godliness, religiosity), çilecilik. (various references)

Ukrainian		аскетизм. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự tu khổ hạnh chủ nghĩa khổ hạnh. (various references)

Welsh		asgetiaeth. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "asceticism": asceticisms. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Asceticism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aceticism, acseticism, asceticiso, ascetisism. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "asceticism" (pronounced 'As*cet"i*cism'): Academicism, AEstheticism, Agnosticism, Anatocism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Arsenicism, Asiaticism, Astaticism, Athleticism, Atomicism, Atticism, Autoecism, Biblicism, Briticism, Catholicism, Celticism, Citicism, Civicism, Classicism, Creticism, Criticism, Cynicism, Ecclesiasticism, Eclecticism, Gallicism, Gnosticism, laconicism, lambdacism, Lexiphanicism, lyricism, Metacism, Metempiricism, monasticism, Monoecism, Mutacism, Mysticism, Mytacism, Neocriticism, Neo-Scholasticism, Organicism, ostracism, Peripateticism, Phallicism, Physicism, Polysyllabicism, Prosaicism, Rhotacism, romanticism, Rotacism. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-i-m-s-s-t"
	-2 letters: ascetics, casteism, meticais, miscites, sciatics.
	-3 letters: amities, ascetic, ascites, ascitic, camises, cimices, ectasis, mastics, misacts, miscast, miscite, miseats, misseat, mitises, samites, sciatic, seismic, sematic, smectic, stimies, tamises.
	-4 letters: access, acetic, amices, camise, caseic, castes, cestas, cities, iciest, maists, mastic, meccas, misact, misate, miseat, misset, saices, samite, siesta, smites, steams, stimes, tassie, tmesis.
	-5 letters: acmes.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-i-m-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: asceticisms, ceramicists.
	+2 letters: acclimatises, cosmeticians.
	+4 letters: commercialists.
	+5 letters: ecclesiasticism, eclaircissement.
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