abstention
1 synonym for abstention, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — The act of holding oneself back from doing something.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Etymology
First recorded in 1521, abstention was borrowed from French abstention, from Late Latin abstēntiō, from Latin abstinēō (“withhold, to abstain”).
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