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The practice of renouncing all worldly pursuits in order to fully devote one's life to spiritual work.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: lifestyle, religion
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: austerity, asceticism, nonindulgence
Narrower terms: eremitism
Etymology tree English monastic Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English monasticism From monastic (“relating to monks”) + -ism.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
монашество
(monašestvo)
— religious practice
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Catalan:
monaquisme
— religious practice
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Chinese Mandarin:
修道主義 /修道主义
(xiūdàozhǔyì)
— religious practice
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Czech:
mnišství
— religious practice
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Esperanto:
monaĥismo
— religious practice
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German:
Monastizismus
— religious practice
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German:
Mönchtum
— religious practice
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Greek:
μοναχισμός
(monachismós)
— religious practice
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Irish:
manachas
— religious practice
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Italian:
monachesimo
— religious practice
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Korean:
수도주의
(sudojuui)
— religious practice
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Macedonian:
монаштво
(monaštvo)
— religious practice
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Polish:
monastycyzm
— religious practice
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Portuguese:
monasticismo
— religious practice
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Swahili:
umonaki
— religious practice
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Tamil:
துறவறம்
(tuṟavaṟam)
— religious practice
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Welsh:
mynachaeth
— religious practice