Synonyms and related words :
Encratism, Friday, Lenten fare, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, asceticism, avoidance, avoiding reaction, banyan day, celibacy, chastity, circumvention, continence, defense mechanism, dodge, duck, elusion, elusiveness, equivocation, escape, eschewal, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, fast, fish day, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, fruitarianism, getting around, gymnosophy, jink, nephalism, neutrality, nonintervention, noninvolvement, plain living, prevention, refrainment, sexual abstinence, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, simple diet, slip, spare diet, teetotalism, the pledge, the runaround, total abstinence, vegetarianism, zigzag