1. The doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state 
2. The trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
   - austerity, nonindulgence 
3. Rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint
   - ascesis

Derived forms: asceticisms

Type of: doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline

Encyclopedia: Asceticism

• selenography
• selenolatry
• selenology
• Seles
• Seleucus
• Seleucus I
• Seleucus I Nicator
• self
• self acceptance
• self-abasement
• self-abnegating
• self-abnegation
• self-absorbed
• self-absorption
• self-abuse
• self-accusation
• self-acting
• self-activating
• self-adapting program
• self-addressed
• self-aggrandisement
• self-aggrandising
• self-aggrandizement
• self-aggrandizing
• self-analysis