convent life
Sisters' secluded community
Convent life is the daily existence of nuns living in a religious community, typically characterized by prayer, contemplation, and communal routine.
The phrase evokes vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, along with separation from secular society: She chose convent life over marriage.
It can suggest either peaceful devotion or restrictive austerity, depending on the speaker's perspective.
- prioressFemale monastic superior
- abbessFemale monastic leader
- choresRoutine household tasks
- religious orderVowed spiritual community
- holy ordersSacrament conferring clergy status
prayer · daily prayers · meditation · cloister · monasticism · novice · contemplation · communal meals · simple living · nun · asceticism · chapter house · fasting · cantor · sacristan · enclosure · silent retreat · scripture reading
- Catholic monasticismabbeys, abbots, abbesses, brothers, sisters
- nunsnun, nuns, sister, sisters, convents
- religious lifereligious vows, religious sisters, religious habit, novitiate, motherhouse
- religious vocationspriesthood, holy orders, ordained ministry, novice, seminarian
- French LiteratureVictor Hugo, Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Dumas, Jules Verne
- historical womenCleopatra, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Marie Curie
convent lifeworldliness
Secular, experienced outlook
public life · social life · urban life · high society · city life
convent lifemarried life
domestic life · family life · motherhood · hedonism · matrimony
convent lifeindependent living
Managing without assistance