ascetic life
Self-denial as lifestyle
An ascetic life is one of severe self-discipline and abstention from pleasure, typically for spiritual purposes.
Monks, hermits, and religious devotees pursue ascetic lives by renouncing comfort, fasting, or withdrawing from society: He left his career to live an ascetic life in the mountains.
The phrase sometimes describes any existence marked by deliberate simplicity or denial of indulgence.
- hermitageSecluded religious dwelling
- Desert FathersFounding Christian monastics
- celibacyAbstaining from intimate relations
- vow of silenceSworn commitment to speechlessness
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
simplicity · simple living · meditation · austerity · moksha · Jainism · enlightenment · fasting · bread and water · self-discipline · spiritual discipline · self-mortification · stoicism · renunciation · detachment · monastic cell · frugality · vow of poverty
- Religious Abstinenceabstinence, Lent, Ramadan, celibacy, chastity
- abstinencesobriety, celibacy, chastity, teetotalism, fasting
- hermitshermit, hermitage, recluse, anchorite, eremite
- Christian Mysticismmystical union, divine union, contemplative life, dark night of the soul, mystical states
- Dattatreyadivine incarnation, spiritual lineage
ascetic lifehedonism
Pursuit of gratification
self-indulgence · debauchery · decadence · libertinism · gratification
ascetic lifeconspicuous consumption
Flaunting wealth through purchases
materialism · high living · extravagance · affluent lifestyle · profligacy