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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] ''abstinentia'', from ''abstinent''-, ''abstinens'', present participle of ''abstinēre''
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]
==Definitions==
*1: voluntary [[forbearance]] especially from indulgence of an [[appetite]] or craving or from eating some [[foods]]
*2a : [[habitual]] abstaining from [[intoxicating]] beverages
:b : abstention from [[sexual intercourse]]
==Description==
'''Abstinence''' is a self-enforced restraint from indulging in bodily activities that are widely experienced as giving [[pleasure]]. Most frequently, the term refers to [[sexual]] abstinence, or abstinence from [[alcohol]] or [[food]]. The [[practice]] can arise from religious prohibitions and [[practical]] considerations. Abstinence may also refer to [[drugs]]. For example you can abstain from smoking. Abstinence has [[diverse]] forms. Commonly it refers to a temporary or partial abstinence from [[food]], as in [[fasting]]. In the [[twelve-step program]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overeaters_Anonymous Overeaters Anonymous] abstinence is the term for refraining from compulsive eating, akin in [[meaning]] to [[sobriety]] for alcoholics. Because the regimen is intended to be a [[conscious]] act, freely chosen to enhance life, abstinence is sometimes distinguished from the [[psychological]] [[mechanism]] of [[repression]]. The latter is an [[unconscious]] state, having unhealthy consequences. [[Freud]] termed the channeling of [[sexual]] energies into other more culturally or socially acceptable activities, "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(psychology) sublimation]". [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstinence]
[[Category: Health]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] ''abstinentia'', from ''abstinent''-, ''abstinens'', present participle of ''abstinēre''
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]
==Definitions==
*1: voluntary [[forbearance]] especially from indulgence of an [[appetite]] or craving or from eating some [[foods]]
*2a : [[habitual]] abstaining from [[intoxicating]] beverages
:b : abstention from [[sexual intercourse]]
==Description==
'''Abstinence''' is a self-enforced restraint from indulging in bodily activities that are widely experienced as giving [[pleasure]]. Most frequently, the term refers to [[sexual]] abstinence, or abstinence from [[alcohol]] or [[food]]. The [[practice]] can arise from religious prohibitions and [[practical]] considerations. Abstinence may also refer to [[drugs]]. For example you can abstain from smoking. Abstinence has [[diverse]] forms. Commonly it refers to a temporary or partial abstinence from [[food]], as in [[fasting]]. In the [[twelve-step program]] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overeaters_Anonymous Overeaters Anonymous] abstinence is the term for refraining from compulsive eating, akin in [[meaning]] to [[sobriety]] for alcoholics. Because the regimen is intended to be a [[conscious]] act, freely chosen to enhance life, abstinence is sometimes distinguished from the [[psychological]] [[mechanism]] of [[repression]]. The latter is an [[unconscious]] state, having unhealthy consequences. [[Freud]] termed the channeling of [[sexual]] energies into other more culturally or socially acceptable activities, "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(psychology) sublimation]". [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstinence]
[[Category: Health]]