abnegation
/abnɪˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n
/noun [mass noun]
1The action of renouncing or rejecting something: abnegation of political power...
- Though this has been portrayed as genuine consultation, in fact the lack of any real, driving ideas about educational reform is an abnegation of political responsibility.
- Will the discursive spaces within the left be divided into radical, semi-radical, not-so radical, etc. depending on abnegation of one's own particularism?
- It seems to a bemused outsider at times as if the country must have its own cultural variant of masochistic puritanism, a collective desire for the penitential abnegation of prosperity and all its works.
Synonyms
renunciation, rejection, refusal, abandonment, abdication, surrender, giving up, relinquishment, abjuration, repudiation, denial, eschewal, disavowal, casting aside
1.1Self-denial: people are capable of abnegation and unselfishness...
- There is both a politics and a delight in this, and both are contingent on abnegation.
- Many critics, theorists, and philosophers have phlegmatically resigned themselves to this space of abnegation.
- Built using a surprising array of materials and techniques, each dress focuses on primal elements of human nature - the soul, memory, seduction, abnegation.
Synonyms
self-denial, self-sacrifice, abstinence, temperance, continence, asceticism, abstemiousness, austerity, renunciation, resignation
Origin
Middle English: from Latin abnegatio(n-), from the verb abnegare (see abnegate).
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