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Abstinence
Abstinence is the act or habit of refraining from some tempting activity, usually sex, but also other activities such as alcohol or food consumption. Therefore, see:
- addiction
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- GreySheeters Anonymous
- Rhythm method
- sexual abstinence
- sobriety
- teetotalism
- Straight_edge
- In the Roman Catholic Church abstinence is the term used for the complete avoidance of meat on Ash Wednesday and Fridays during Lent. Compare fasting.
Compare: chastity, promiscuity
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