What is the meaning of ascetic?

noun

  • Someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline.

adjective

  • Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline.
    • usage: "ascetic practices"
  • Practicing great self-denial.
    • usage: "Be systematically ascetic... Do... Something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
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