Usually means: Choosing to refrain from activities.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word abstinence:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. abstinence: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. abstinence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abstinence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abstinence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abstinence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Abstinence, abstinence: Wordnik
  7. abstinence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. abstinence: Wiktionary
  9. abstinence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abstinence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. abstinence: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. abstinence: Dictionary.com
  13. abstinence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. abstinence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Abstinence (band), Abstinence (conscription), Abstinence (disambiguation), Abstinence (psychoanalysis), Abstinence, The Abstinence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Abstinence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. abstinence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. abstinence: Rhymezone
  19. abstinence, abstinence (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. abstinence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. abstinence: Free Dictionary
  22. abstinence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. abstinence: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. abstinence: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abstinence: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abstinence: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Abstinence: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Abstinence: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. abstinence: Medical dictionary
  6. Abstinence: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Abstinence: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act or practice of abstaining, refraining from indulging a desire or appetite.
noun:  Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating/alcoholic beverages; total abstinence; teetotalism).
noun:  Specifically, the practice of abstaining from sexual intercourse, either permanently or until marriage.
noun:  (ecclesiastical) Abstention from certain foods on days of penitential observance.
noun:  The practice of self-denial; self-restraint; forebearance from anything.
noun:  (obsolete) Self-denial; abstaining; or forebearance of anything.
noun:  (business) Delay of spending to accrue capital.

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