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MONASTICISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("monasticism" is a kind of...):
asceticism; austerity; nonindulgence (the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "monasticism"):
eremitism (monasticism characterized by solitude in which the social dimension of life is sacrificed to the primacy of religious experience)
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