abnegation as a noun: - 1
- 2
abnegation
noun
1 abnegation
The denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief.
2 abnegation
Renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others.
synonyms: denial, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation.
Roget 536:
negation,
abnegation;
denial;
disavowal,
disclaimer;
abjuration;
contradiction,
contravention;
recusation [Law],
protest;
recusancy
etc.
(dissent)
489;
flat contradiction,
emphatic contradiction,
emphatic denial,
dementi [Lat.].
qualification
etc.
469;
repudiation
etc.
610;
retraction
etc.
607;
confutation
etc.
479;
refusal
etc.
764;
prohibition
etc.
761.
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Roget 764:
refusal,
rejection;
noncompliance,
incompliance†;
denial;
declining
etc.
v.;
declension;
declinature†;
peremptory refusal,
flat refusal,
point blank refusal;
repulse,
rebuff;
discountenance.
recusancy,
abnegation,
protest,
disclaimer;
dissent
etc.
489;
revocation
etc.
756.
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Roget 953:
temperance,
moderation,
sobriety,
soberness.
forbearance,
abnegation;
self-denial,
self-restraint,
self-control
etc.
(resolution)
604.
frugality;
vegetarianism,
teetotalism,
total abstinence;
abstinence,
abstemiousness;
Encratism†,
prohibition;
system of Pythagoras,
system of Cornaro;
Pythagorism,
Stoicism.
vegetarian;
Pythagorean,
gymnosophist†.
teetotaler
etc.
958;
abstainer;
designated driver;
Encratite†,
fruitarian†,
hydropot†.
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Dutch: zelfopoffering, zelfverloochening, verloochening
Moby thesaurus: abstinence, calm, calmness, conservatism, constraint, continence, contradiction, control, cool, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, deprivation, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disobedience, dispassion, dissent, evenness, forbearance, frugality, gentleness, golden mean, happy medium, holding back, impartiality, judiciousness, juste-milieu, lenity, meden agan, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism, nay, naysaying, negation, negative, negative answer, negative attitude, negativeness, negativism, negativity, neutrality, nix, no, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonobservance, nonviolence, nothing in excess, pacifism, prudence, recantation, refusal, rejection, renouncement, renunciation, repose, repudiation, restraint, retention, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-mastery, self-restraint, serenity, soberness, sobriety, sophrosyne, stability, steadiness, temperance, temperateness, thumbs-down, tranquillity, turndown, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness, unwillingness, via media, withholding ... show more.
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