Difference between Abstemious and Ascetic

ABSTEMIOUS vs ASCETIC: NOUN

Practices self denial as spiritual discipline
A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion.
In the early Christian church, one who practised unusual self-denial and devotion; in modern usage, also one who retires from the customary business of life and engages in pious exercises; a hermit; a recluse.
Plural [capitalized] The title of certam books on devout exercises: as, the Ascetics of St. Basil.
In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things.
The science which treats of the practice of the theological and moral virtues, and the counsels of perfection.
One who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.
Someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

Sparing in consumption of especially food and drink
Eating and drinking in moderation.
Characterized by abstinence or moderation.
Abstaining from wine.
Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.
Marked by, or spent in, abstinence.
Promotive of abstemiousness.
Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.
Marked by temperance in indulgence

Practicing great self-denial
Relating to, characteristic of, or leading a life of self-discipline and self-denial, especially for spiritual improvement. : severe.
Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.
Of or relating to ascetics; characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure.
Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline

Sparing in diet; moderate in the use of food and drink; temperate; abstinent.
Restricted; very moderate and plain; very sparing; spare: opposed to luxurious or rich: as, an abstemious diet.
Devoted to or spent in abstemiousness or abstinence: as, an abstemious life.
Promoting or favoring abstemiousness; associated with temperance.

Pertaining to or resembling the ascetics.
Hence Unduly strict or rigid in religious exercises or mortifications; severe; austere.
Practising special acts of self-denial as a religious exercise; seeking holiness through self-mortification; hence, rigidly abstinent and self-restrained as to appetites and passions.

Pious, Frugal, Sober, Unostentatious, Parsimonious, Monkish, Teetotal, Abstentious, Light, Temperate, Abstinent, Spartan, Ascetical, Austere, Ascetic

Contemplative, Disciple, Piety, Monk, Saintly, Pious, Monkish, Monastic, Eremite, Loner, Abstainer, Spartan, Ascetical, Abstemious, Austere

Pious, Frugal, Sober, Unostentatious, Parsimonious, Monkish, Teetotal, Abstentious, Light, Temperate, Abstinent, Spartan, Ascetical, Austere, Ascetic

Contemplative, Disciple, Piety, Monk, Saintly, Pious, Monkish, Monastic, Eremite, Loner, Abstainer, Spartan, Ascetical, Abstemious, Austere

He was incapable of small talk, and he was an unapologetic workaholic, abstemious to the point of joylessness.
Sith consider the dark side of the Force to be its most powerful manifestation, and regard the abstemious Jedi as blinded by false virtue.
She can achieve this goal in part by reducing her sexual desires and production of semen through an abstemious diet of cooling, drying foods.
Nana was an abstemious eater though, as in his good old days, he enjoyed his Mosi and Castle lagers, occasionally taking Gin.
Bill, who wants to lose weight, is abstemious in eating foods high in fat.
But for all this, the great negro was wonderfully abstemious, not to say dainty.
His habits were strictly abstemious, and he neither took wine nor strong drink.
Small, narrow, slim; weak, feeble, slight; moderate, trivial, inconsiderable, meager; spare, abstemious, frugal.
Diagonalising dice organelles stalactites abstemious inhales commemorated auxiliaries sociocultural.

She entered the order of Jains as an ascetic.
Boniface, the early Church martyr and ascetic of Tarsus.
Manichaeism appears in point of fact as thoroughly ascetic.
Have you ever read the ascetic canons of St.
Ascetic practices and responses like nausea, BP alteration, etc.
His piety was of the severely ascetic type.
Much undescribable beauty adorns the Muslim ascetic heritage.
Zahid name meaning in Hindi is Devout, Ascetic.
Ascetic at any time after the Brahmacharya stage.
This was the name of Abu Bakr Muhammad, an ascetic and authority for Hadith Name of an authority and ascetic of Hadith.