asceticism
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His timing was impeccable, meeting a counterculture primed to embrace ISKCON’s practices of communal living, ecstatic dancing and asceticism.
From New York Times • May 22, 2024
There’s an asceticism to bespoke suit making that can be found in the religion as well.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023
Attempting asceticism sets patients up for a phenomenon known as the abstinence violation effect, where a minor lapse turns into a huge binge, because people believe they've already blown their recovery anyway.
From Salon • Feb. 24, 2022
Environmental asceticism clearly has very limited political appeal in this country, and it will have even less abroad for consumers eager to attain lifestyles Americans take for granted.
From Washington Post • Jul. 18, 2021
Although his income was small, he had no taste for luxury—his experience in the monastery had solidified his natural asceticism while it developed his preference for solitude.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
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