Synonyms for self-renunciation
- noun
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
The act of renouncing one's own rights or claims; self-abnegation.
Forms
- Plural
- self-renunciations → self-denials, denials, self-abnegations, abnegations…
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Self-renunciation surrenders conscious rights and claims; self-abnegation forgets that there is anything to surrender. There have been devotees who practised very little self-denial with very much self-renunciation.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- denial There are five stages of grief. Stage one: denial.
By length
- 6 letters
- denial3
- 10 letters
- abnegation4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (denial3 = 3 syllables).