monastic lifestyle
Life of renunciation
A monastic lifestyle is one of religious devotion, discipline, and withdrawal from worldly concerns—the life of monks and nuns in monasteries and convents.
The term extends to any austere, contemplative way of living marked by simplicity, solitude, and routine: After the divorce, he adopted an almost monastic lifestyle, rising at dawn and eating the same meals each day.
- abbeyMonastic house of worship
- Desert FathersFounding Christian monastics
- prayerAddress to deity
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- theologyStudy of the divine
meditation · cloister · cloistered life · holy orders · mysticism · chanting · divine union · celibacy · vow of silence · communal meals · solitude · spiritual discipline · Zen temples · renunciation · dormitory · simplicity · manual labor · daily prayers
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Non-spiritual way of living
cosmopolitan lifestyle · materialism · urban lifestyle · urban life · high society
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Everyday household living
family life · social life · married life · public life · suburban lifestyle
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Pursuit of gratification
debauchery · decadence · libertinism · epicureanism · self-indulgence
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