self-abnegation
Rejecting personal desires
Self-abnegation is the denial or sacrifice of one's own interests, desires, or well-being for the sake of others or a higher purpose.
The word carries connotations of extreme selflessness, often with religious or moral overtones: The monk's life of self-abnegation included fasting and solitude.
It can suggest admirable devotion or unhealthy self-erasure, depending on context.
Suffering for conviction
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- forfeitLose through violation
- immolationSacrificial killing, often burning
- offeringSomething presented or given
devotion · oblation · laying down · giving up · relinquishment · submission · yielding · consecration
Formal surrender of claim
- monasticismCloistered religious living
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- celibacyAbstaining from intimate relations
hermitage · mortification · penance · spartan · anchorite · mendicant · flagellation · hair shirt
Patient self-control, delayed enforcement
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
- continenceControl over bodily functions
- temperanceHabitual moderation in behavior
- abstemiousnessHabitual moderation in consumption
repression · curbing · withholding · privation · refusal · forgoing
Absence of vanity
- meeknessGentle, unassertive disposition
- lowlinessState of modest rank
- unpretentiousnessAbsence of showiness
- servilityExcessive willingness to please
deference · ego death · submissiveness · obsequiousness · emptying · diminishment · unassumingness
Separation or emotional uninvolvement
- equanimityUnshakable mental steadiness
- nonattachmentFreedom from emotional clinging
- acceptanceConsent to receive
- resignationVoluntary relinquishment of position
dispassion · indifference · ataraxia · impassivity · emotional restraint · uncomplaining · long-suffering · endurance
martyrdom
Suffering for conviction
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
- forfeitLose through violation
- immolationSacrificial killing, often burning
offering · devotion · oblation · laying down · giving up · relinquishment · submission · yielding · consecration · dedication
renunciation
Formal surrender of claim
- monasticismCloistered religious living
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
celibacy · hermitage · mortification · penance · spartan · anchorite · mendicant · flagellation · hair shirt · sackcloth
forbearance
Patient self-control, delayed enforcement
- suppressionForcible prevention or concealment
- continenceControl over bodily functions
- temperanceHabitual moderation in behavior
abstemiousness · repression · curbing · withholding · privation · refusal · forgoing
modesty
Absence of vanity
- meeknessGentle, unassertive disposition
- lowlinessState of modest rank
- unpretentiousnessAbsence of showiness
servility · deference · ego death · submissiveness · obsequiousness · emptying · diminishment · unassumingness
detachment
Separation or emotional uninvolvement
- equanimityUnshakable mental steadiness
- nonattachmentFreedom from emotional clinging
- acceptanceConsent to receive
resignation · dispassion · indifference · ataraxia · impassivity · emotional restraint · uncomplaining · long-suffering · endurance · composure
- humilityhumbleness, humble, meekness, modesty, modest
- abstinencesobriety, celibacy, chastity, teetotalism, fasting
- self-disciplinerestraint, impulse control, willpower, discipline, emotional control
self-abnegationselfishness
Excessive concern for oneself
self-interest · self-seeking · greed · self-gratification · self-centeredness
self-abnegationself-indulgence
Excessive yielding to desires
hedonism · self-gratification · sybaritism · sensuality · gluttony
self-abnegationself-assertion
Insisting on recognition
self-will · self-aggrandizement · egotism · willfulness · self-promotion
self, negative, selfless, negate, selflessness, self-denial, self-sacrifice, abnegate, abnegation