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monasticism

DEFINITIONS OF: monasticism

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n asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience

Types:
eremitism
monasticism characterized by solitude in which the social dimension of life is sacrificed to the primacy of religious experience
Type of:
asceticism, austerity, nonindulgence
the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
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