Usually means: Voluntary denial of personal desires.
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  1. self-renunciation: Merriam-Webster
  2. self-renunciation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-renunciation, self-renunciation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. self-renunciation: Vocabulary.com
  5. self-renunciation: Wordnik
  6. self-renunciation: Wiktionary
  7. self-renunciation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. self-renunciation: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. self-renunciation: Dictionary.com
  10. Self-renunciation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. self-renunciation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. self-renunciation: Rhymezone
  13. Self-renunciation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. self-renunciation: FreeDictionary.org
  15. self-renunciation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. self-renunciation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The act of renouncing one's own rights or claims; self-abnegation.

Similar:
abnegation, denial, self-abnegation, self-denial, renouncement, renunciation, renunciance, self-abasement, abdication, disaffirmation, more...

Opposite:
self-indulgence, self-gratification, self-fulfillment

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Similar:
abnegation, denial, self-abnegation, self-denial, renouncement, renunciation, renunciance, self-abasement, abdication, disaffirmation, more...

Opposite:
self-indulgence, self-gratification, self-fulfillment



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