Definition of Abstinency. Meaning of Abstinency. Synonyms of Abstinency

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Definition of Abstinency

Abstinency
Abstinency Ab"sti*nen*cy, n. Abstinence. [R.]

Meaning of Abstinency from wikipedia

- Abstinence is the practice of self-enforced restraint from indulging in bodily activities that are widely experienced as giving pleasure. Most frequently...
- ****ual abstinence or ****ual restraint is the practice of refraining from ****ual activity for reasons medical, psychological, legal, social, philosophical...
- "The Abstinence" is the 143rd episode of the American sitcom Seinfeld. This was the ninth episode for the eighth season, originally broadcast on the NBC...
- sense in an American source, and in 1833 in England in the context of abstinence. Since at first it was used in other contexts as an emphasised form of...
- fasting and abstinence (from meat) at various times each year. For Catholics, fasting is the reduction of one's intake of food, while abstinence refers to...
- pleasure. Abstinence may also refer to: Abstinence (band), an experimental industrial music project "The Abstinence", a Seinfeld episode Abstinence theory...
- and abstinence-only as part of the Adolescent Family Life Act, or AFLA. Comprehensive **** education is also called abstinence-based, abstinence-plus...
- Periodic abstinence may refer to: The use of fertility awareness as birth control Following the Roman Catholic Church's teachings on natural family planning...
- Abstinence or the rule of abstinence is the principle of analytic reticence and/or frustration within a clinical situation. It is a central feature of...
- temperance movement is a social movement promoting temperance or total abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages. Parti****nts in the movement...