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renunciation
The act or an instance of renouncing:
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  1. The act or an instance of renouncing:
  2. Abandonment of a right, whether open or tacit, without transferring it to someone else; in criminal law, the total voluntary abandonment of a criminal activity before it is committed with the purpose of foiling that activity. Abandonment of a right, whether open or tacit, without transferring it to someone else; in criminal law, the total voluntary abandonment of a criminal activity before it is committed with the purpose of foiling that activity.
  3. A written statement or declaration of this
self-denial
The act of refusing to recognize unpleasant facts even when presented by one's self.
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  1. The act of refusing to recognize unpleasant facts even when presented by one's self.
  2. Sacrifice of one's own desires or interests.
  3. Denial or sacrifice of one's own desires or pleasures
teetotalism
Abstinence from the consumption of alcohol.
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  1. Abstinence from the consumption of alcohol.
  2. The principle or practice of never drinking any alcoholic liquor
serenity
The quality or state of being serene; calmness; tranquillity
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  1. The quality or state of being serene; calmness; tranquillity
  2. A title given to a reigning prince or similar dignitary.
  3. A female given name in general use since the 1990s.
graveness
The state of being grave; gravity
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  1. The state of being grave; gravity
gravity
Seriousness, as of a situation
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  1. Seriousness, as of a situation
  2. Grave consequence; seriousness or importance:
  3. The fundamental force of attraction that all objects with mass have for each other. Like the electromagnetic force, gravity has effectively infinite range and obeys the inverse-square law. At the atomic level, where masses are very small, the force of gravity is negligible, but for objects that have very large masses such as planets, stars, and galaxies, gravity is a predominant force, and it plays an important role in theories of the structure of the universe. Gravity is believed to be mediated by the graviton, although the graviton has yet to be isolated by experiment. Gravity is weaker than the strong force, the electromagnetic force, and the weak force.
sedateness
The state or quality of being sedate; calmness of mind, manner, or countenance; composure; placidity; serenity; tranquillity.
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  1. The state or quality of being sedate; calmness of mind, manner, or countenance; composure; placidity; serenity; tranquillity.
solemnity
Solemn ceremony, ritual, observance, etc.
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  1. Solemn ceremony, ritual, observance, etc.
  2. (Law) The formality needed to validate an act, contract, etc.
  3. Solemn feeling, character, or appearance; serious or awesome quality; gravity
solemnness
The state or quality of being solemn.
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  1. The state or quality of being solemn.
staidness
The state or characteristic of being staid.
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  1. The state or characteristic of being staid.
abstinence
(R.C.Ch.) Abstention from flesh meat on certain designated days
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  1. (R.C.Ch.) Abstention from flesh meat on certain designated days
  2. The act of voluntarily doing without some or all food, drink, or other pleasures
  3. The act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite or desire, especially for alcoholic drink or sexual intercourse.
dryness
The degree to which something is dry.
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  1. The degree to which something is dry.
  2. The quality or state of being dry
  3. (Uncountable) A lack of moisture.
soberness
The state or quality of being sober.
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  1. The state or quality of being sober.
teetotalism
The principle or practice of never drinking any alcoholic liquor
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  1. The principle or practice of never drinking any alcoholic liquor
  2. Abstinence from the consumption of alcohol.
temperance
The state or quality of being temperate; self-restraint in conduct, expression, indulgence of the appetites, etc.; moderation
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  1. The state or quality of being temperate; self-restraint in conduct, expression, indulgence of the appetites, etc.; moderation
  2. Abstinence from or moderation in drinking alcoholic beverages.
  3. Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.
Find another word for sobriety. In this page you can discover 26 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for sobriety, like: renunciation, self-denial, teetotalism, earnestness, serenity, placidity, abstinence, temperance, seriousness, graveness and gravity.

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  • He was well adapted to his time by his good sense and sobriety of judgment.

  • The buildings of the latest French style keep a certain purity and sobriety in Normandy which they do not keep elsewhere.

  • As an advocate he occasionally forgets that sobriety of judgment and expression become an historian.

  • A greater sobriety of tone was introduced both into life and literature with the accession of Vespasian.

  • But in his general view of ethical principles as being, like mathematical principles,' essentially truths of relation, Clarke is quite in accordance with Locke; while of the four fundamental rules that he expounds, Piety towards God, Equity, Benevolence and Sobriety (which includes self-preservation), the first is obtained, just as Locke suggests, by " comparing the idea " of man with the idea of an infinitely good and wise being on whom he depends; and the second and third are axioms self-evident on the consideration of the equality or similarity of human individuals as such.

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