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asceticism
[aset′isiz′əm]
Etymology: Gk, askein, to exercise
(in psychiatry) a defense mechanism that involves repudiation of all instinctual impulses. The concept is derived from the religious doctrine that material things are evil and only spiritual things are good.


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He was famed for his severe ascetism and complete rejection of the material world - he is said to have gone naked from the moment of his renunciation and to have had no concern with food, water, sleep or cleanliness.
Nakedness within Hindu ascetism is considered to connote a high form of detachment from the material world; thus nudity (known as digambar, "wearing the sky" in some monastic traditions) has become an important marker of achievement, and by extension, status.
Nelson, who cultivates a reputation for ascetism, lives in the garage and cheerfully eschews heating.
 
 
 
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