Synonyms of abstention

abstention

noun

as in abnegation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• abnegation
• avoidance
• eschewal
• mortification
• asceticism
• forbearance
• self-denial
• frugality
• sacrifice
• austerity
• self-mastery
• sensibleness
• rationality
• self-command
• reasonableness
• abstinence
• sensibility
• reasonability
• teetotalism
• self-containment
• soberness
• sobriety
• moderation
• rationalness
• restraint
• self-control
• self-discipline
• moderateness
• middle-of-the-roadism
• temperance
• discipline
• constraint
• temperateness
• control

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• intemperance
• excessiveness
• immoderation
• excess
• superfluity
• extremity
• extremism
• extremeness
• immoderateness
• intemperateness
• unrestraint
• unreasonableness
• irrationality
• immoderacy
• radicalness
• unconstraint
• insobriety