Abstinence
Abstinence noun - Voluntary restraint in the satisfaction of one's appetites.
Self-containment and abstinence are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Self-containment" instead a noun "Abstinence".
Self-containment
Self-containment noun - The power to control one's actions, impulses, or emotions.
Usage example: a man of extraordinary self-containment, he refused to lose his temper even in the most trying of circumstances
Abstinence and self-containment are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Abstinence" instead a noun phrase "Self-containment".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- temperance and abstinence
- temperance and self-containment
- forbearance and abstinence
- forbearance and self-containment
- reserve and abstinence
- reserve and self-containment
- frugality and abstinence
- frugality and self-containment
- restraint and abstinence
- restraint and self-containment
- sobriety and abstinence
- sobriety and self-containment
- continence and abstinence
- continence and self-containment
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