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  2. the fact of not doing something, usually something that is considered harmful such as drinking alcohol or using a drug: We found that with abstinence from smoking, the severity of symptoms decreased. Alcohol abstinence is recommended for breast-feeding mothers.

  3. The meaning of ABSTINENCE is the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable. How to use abstinence in a sentence.

  4. Abstinence is the practice of abstaining from something such as alcoholic drink or sex, often for health or religious reasons.

  5. Abstinence is the opposite of indulgence. People who practice abstinence deny themselves something, often something they really want. Regardless of whether people are abstaining from food, alcohol, or sex, they have to practice self-control. In fact, the word is derived from the Latin term for "to hold back."

  6. Abstinence definition: forbearance, especially habitual forbearance as a lifestyle choice, from any indulgence of a particular appetite, such as from sex or from the use of alcoholic beverages. See examples of ABSTINENCE used in a sentence.

  7. Abstinence implies the willful avoidance of pleasures, especially of food and drink, thought to be harmful or self-indulgent: "I vainly reminded him of his protracted abstinence from food" (Emily Brontë).

  8. Definition of abstinence noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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