Similar words: abstemious, viciousness, tediousness, deviousness, anxiousness, curiousness, perviousness, seriousness. Meaning: [əb'stɪːmɪəsnɪs] 
n. 1. restricted to bare necessities 2. moderation in eating and drinking.
n. 1. restricted to bare necessities 2. moderation in eating and drinking. 1. Abstinence, abstemiousness and a carefully controlled diet keep them in one piece.
2. This abstemiousness has served it well as the commodity cycle has turned.
3. Moorel's habitual gravity , as well as his abstemiousness has so far recommended him to Mrs. Yorke.
4. As Andrew counsels, perhaps a little more abstemiousness wouldn't go amiss.
5. Abstemiousness—just 9% of Manhattanites drive to work alone, compared with 75% of Angelenos.
6. In this isolation you do achieve certain powers, a certain quality of austerity and abstemiousness, which give a sense of power.
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