Puritanism is behaviour or beliefs that are based on strict moral or religious principles, especially the principle that people should avoid physical pleasures.
[disapproval]
...the tight-lipped puritanism of the Scottish literary world.
Synonyms: strictness, austerity, severity, zeal More Synonyms of puritanism
Puritanism
uncountable noun
Puritanism is the set of beliefs that were held by the Puritans.
Out of Puritanism came the intense work ethic.
Examples of 'puritanism' in a sentence
puritanism
They are soaked through and through with that old strain of English puritanism that looks on pleasure as a mortal danger.
Hilton, John Buxton THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL) (2002)
(noun)
the tight-lipped puritanism of the Scottish literary world
Synonyms
strictness
austerity
the years of austerity which followed the war
severity
He was sickened by the severity of the sentence.
zeal
piety
rigidity
fanaticism
narrowness
asceticism
a life of uncompromising asceticism and absolute poverty
moralism
prudishness
rigorism
piousness
Additional synonyms
in the sense of asceticism
a life of uncompromising asceticism and absolute poverty