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| abstinence(noun, rejection, diet, avoidance, repudiation) | |
| avoidance(noun, rejection, repudiation, renunciation, abstinence) | |
| refraining(noun, avoidance, abstinence, renouncement, continence) | |
| sobriety(noun, refraining) | |
| abstemiousness | |
| celibacy(noun, abstinence, chastity) | |
| continence(noun, abstinence, renouncement, chastity) | |
| self-denial(noun, refraining) | |
| chastity | |
| abstaining(noun, abstinence, renouncement, refraining, nonparticipation) | |
| fast | |
| inaction(noun, avoidance, not risk, noninvolvement, noninterventionism) | |
| teetotalism | |
| temperance(noun, rejection, repudiation, renunciation) | |
| asceticism | |
| eschewal(noun, surrender, rebuff, yielding, rejection) | |
| forbearance | |
| hunger strike(expression, idiom, diet) | |
| neutrality | |
| non-indulgence(noun, refraining) |
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