Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: onthouding
- Amharic: abstinence
- Arabic: الامتناع عن ممارسة الجنس
- Azerbaijani: abstinence
- Bashkir: нәфсе
- Belarusian: ўстрыманне
- Bulgarian: въздържание
- Bengali: বিরত থাকার
- Bosnian: apstinencija
- Catalan: l'abstinència
- Cebuano: pagpugong sa kaugalingon
- Czech: abstinence
- Welsh: llwyr ymwrthod
- Danish: afholdenhed
- German: Abstinenz
- Greek: αποχή
- Esperanto: abstinado
- Spanish: la abstinencia
- Estonian: hoidumine
- Basque: abstinentzia
- Persian: پرهیز
- Finnish: raittiutta
- French: l'abstinence
- Irish: staonadh
- Scottish Gaelic: abstinence
- Galician: a abstinencia
- Gujarati: ત્યાગ
- Hebrew: התנזרות
- Hindi: संयम
- Croatian: apstinencija
- Haitian: abstinans
- Hungarian: az önmegtartóztatás
- Armenian: ժուժկալություն
- Indonesian: pantang
- Icelandic: bindindi
- Italian: l'astinenza
- Japanese: 禁酒
- Javanese: abstinence
- Georgian: თავშეკავება
- Kazakh: қалыс қалу
- Khmer: រួមភេទ
- Kannada: ಇಂದ್ರಿಯನಿಗ್ರಹವು
- Korean: 금
- Kyrgyz: воздержание
- Latin: abstinentia
- Luxembourgish: Abstinenz
- Lao: ລະເວັ້ນ
- Lithuanian: abstinencija
- Latvian: atturēšanās
- Malagasy: tsy nihinan-kanina
- Mari: пӱтӧ
- Maori: nohopuku
- Macedonian: апстиненција
- Malayalam: bones
- Mongolian: харилцаанд
- Marathi: मदिरावर्जन
- Hill Mari: ата
- Malay: pantang
- Maltese: l-astinenza
- Burmese: နေကြပြီး
- Nepali: abstinence
- Dutch: onthouding
- Norwegian: avholdenhet
- Punjabi: ਖਲ੍ਹੋ
- Papiamento: e durante
- Polish: abstynencja
- Portuguese: abstinência
- Romanian: abstinenta
- Russian: воздержание
- Sinhalese: වැළකී සිටීම
- Slovak: abstinencie
- Slovenian: abstinenca
- Albanian: abstenimi
- Serbian: апстиненција
- Sundanese: dahar
- Swedish: avhållsamhet
- Swahili: kuacha
- Tamil: தவிர்ப்பு
- Telugu: సంయమనాన్ని
- Tajik: худдорӣ
- Thai: abstinence
- Tagalog: pangilin
- Turkish: perhiz
- Tatar: воздержание
- Udmurt: быгатон
- Ukrainian: утримання
- Urdu: پرہیز
- Uzbek: sabr
- Vietnamese: kiêng
- Xhosa: abstinence
- Yiddish: אַבסטאַנאַנס
- Chinese: 禁欲
Synonyms, close and similar words for abstinence
- temperance
- moderation
- sobriety
- chastity
- continence
- restraint
- celibacy
- withdrawal syndrome
- withdrawal
- abstemiousness
- forbearance
- refraining