"abstention" meaning in English

See abstention in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /əbˈstɛn.ʃn̩/ [Received-Pronunciation], /æbˈstɛn.ʃn̩/ [US], /əbˈstɛn.ʃn̩/ [US], /æbˈstɛn.t͡ʃn̩/ [US], /əbˈstɛn.t͡ʃn̩/ [US] Audio: en-us-abstention.ogg [US] Forms: abstentions [plural]
Etymology: First attested in 1521. Borrowed from French abstention, from Late Latin abstēntiō from Latin abstinēō (“withhold, to abstain”) Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|abstention}} French abstention, {{der|en|la-lat|abstēntiō}} Late Latin abstēntiō, {{der|en|la|abstinēō||withhold, to abstain}} Latin abstinēō (“withhold, to abstain”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} abstention (countable and uncountable, plural abstentions)
  1. (obsolete) The act of restraining oneself. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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  2. The act of abstaining or refraining (from). Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the act of abstaining): اِمْتِنَاع (imtināʕ) (Arabic), إِمْسَاك (ʔimsāk) (Arabic), въздържаност (văzdăržanost) (Bulgarian), abstenció [feminine] (Catalan), 棄權 /弃权 (qìquán) (english: failing to exercise a right) (Chinese Mandarin), 戒除 (jièchú) (english: bad habits) (Chinese Mandarin), 戒酒 (jièjiǔ) (english: alcohol) (Chinese Mandarin), 禁酒 (jìnjiǔ) (english: alcohol) (Chinese Mandarin), onthouding [feminine] (Dutch), abstinentie [feminine] (Dutch), sindeteno (Esperanto), abstino (Esperanto), pidättäytyminen (Finnish), abstention [feminine] (French), Enthaltung [feminine] (German), Abstandnehmen [neuter] (German), הִמָּנְעוּת (himanʿut) [feminine] (Hebrew), tartózkodás (Hungarian), abstention (Interlingua), astensione (Italian), 慎むこと (tsutsushimu koto) (alt: つつしむこと) (Japanese), 禁酒 (kinshu) (english: alcohol) (alt: きんしゅ) (Japanese), 棄権 (kiken) (english: failing to exercise a right) (alt: きけん) (Japanese), 不参加 (fusanka) (english: non-participation) (alt: ふさんか) (Japanese), avhold [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), abstynencja [feminine] (Polish), abstenção [feminine] (Portuguese), abținere [feminine] (Romanian), воздержа́ние (vozderžánije) [neuter] (Russian), возде́ржанность (vozdéržannostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), seachnadh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), abstención [feminine] (Spanish), çekimserlik (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-abstention-en-noun-FOmuWJFj Categories (other): English terms with collocations Disambiguation of 'the act of abstaining': 21 51 19 9
  3. The act of declining to vote on a particular issue. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-abstention-en-noun-maRAPT-f
  4. Non-participation in the political world; as a country avoiding international affairs. Tags: countable, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: abstention doctrine, abstentionism, abstentionist, abstentious, nonabstention Related terms: abstinence

Inflected forms

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      "word": "棄權 /弃权"
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      "word": "戒酒"
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      "roman": "jìnjiǔ",
      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
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      "word": "禁酒"
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      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
      "word": "pidättäytyminen"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
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      "word": "abstention"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Enthaltung"
    },
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      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
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      "word": "Abstandnehmen"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "lang_code": "he",
      "roman": "himanʿut",
      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "הִמָּנְעוּת"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
      "word": "tartózkodás"
    },
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      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
      "word": "abstention"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
      "word": "astensione"
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    {
      "alt": "つつしむこと",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
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      "roman": "tsutsushimu koto",
      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
      "word": "慎むこと"
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    {
      "alt": "きんしゅ",
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      "english": "alcohol",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "roman": "kinshu",
      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
      "translation": "alcohol",
      "word": "禁酒"
    },
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      "alt": "きけん",
      "code": "ja",
      "english": "failing to exercise a right",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "roman": "kiken",
      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
      "translation": "failing to exercise a right",
      "word": "棄権"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ふさんか",
      "code": "ja",
      "english": "non-participation",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "roman": "fusanka",
      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
      "translation": "non-participation",
      "word": "不参加"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
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      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
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      "word": "avhold"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "abstynencja"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "abstenção"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
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      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "abținere"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "roman": "vozderžánije",
      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
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      "word": "воздержа́ние"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "vozdéržannostʹ",
      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "возде́ржанность"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
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      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "seachnadh"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "the act of abstaining",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "abstención"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
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      "word": "çekimserlik"
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