monasticism

Noun
  1. Asceticism as a form of religious life;
    Usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience (synset 104889409)
    is a type of: asceticism, austerity, nonindulgence - the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
    subtypes: eremitism - monasticism characterized by solitude in which the social dimension of life is sacrificed to the primacy of religious experience

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