monastic life
Vowed religious seclusion
Monastic life refers to a way of living devoted to religious practice, typically within a community of monks or nuns who have withdrawn from ordinary society.
Those who embrace monastic life usually take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, following a structured daily routine of prayer, work, and contemplation.
The term extends figuratively to describe any austere, disciplined existence marked by simplicity and withdrawal from worldly pleasures: After his divorce, he retreated into a kind of monastic life.
- conventReligious sisters' dwelling
- abbeyMonastic house of worship
- nunneryMonastery for women
- cloisterCovered monastic walkway
- cloistered lifeSecluded religious existence
meditation · contemplation · silent prayer · vow of silence · celibacy · abbot · asceticism · prayer · scriptorium · renunciation · novice · religious habit · poverty · simple living · austerity · vows · communal meals · solitude
- CatholicismVatican, cardinals, pope, Holy Communion, popes
- spiritualitysacred, enlightened, divine, holy, spiritual growth
- self-controlself-control, restraint, willpower, composure, moderation
- solitudesolitude, alone, isolation, aloneness, seclusion
- self-sacrificehuman shield, selflessness, self-denial, renunciation, forfeit
- Japanese religionShinto, kami, Shintoism, Buddhism, torii
monastic lifepublic life
Existence in societal view
urban life · city life · social life · hustle and bustle · civic engagement
monastic lifehedonism
Pursuit of gratification
self-indulgence · high living · the good life · la dolce vita