asceticism

asceticism has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 10.

Definitions

• n.. The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics.
• n.. rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint
• n.. the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
• n.. the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state