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Synonyms of celibacy in English:

celibacy


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noun

1‘a priest who had taken a vow of celibacy’

SYNONYMS
chastity, virginity, maidenhood, maidenhead, abstinence, self-denial, self-restraint, abnegation, asceticism
the unmarried state, singleness, bachelorhood, spinsterhood
monkhood, nunhood, monasticism
rare single blessedness, continence
ANTONYMS

marriage, sex