MONASTICISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does monasticism mean? 

• MONASTICISM (noun)
  The noun MONASTICISM has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MONASTICISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONASTICISM (noun)

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Meaning:

Asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("monasticism" is a kind of...):

asceticism; austerity; nonindulgence (the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "monasticism"):

eremitism (monasticism characterized by solitude in which the social dimension of life is sacrificed to the primacy of religious experience)