abstinence

self-enforced restraint from indulging in an activity
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abstinence

Summary

abstinence is a human behavior[1]. abstinence draws 316 Wikipedia views per month (human_behavior category, ranking #16 of 31).[2]

Key Facts

  • abstinence's instance of is recorded as human behavior[3].
  • abstinence's GND ID is recorded as 4137441-1[4].
  • abstinence's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85047403[5].
  • abstinence's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119321545[6].
  • abstinence's subclass of is recorded as selection[7].
  • abstinence's Commons category is recorded as Abstinence[8].
  • abstinence's said to be the same as is recorded as teetotalism[9].
  • abstinence's opposite of is recorded as human activity[10].
  • abstinence's opposite of is recorded as indulgence[11].
  • abstinence's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 30181[12].
  • abstinence's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0zhv[13].
  • abstinence's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph974620[14].
  • abstinence's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 178[15].
  • abstinence's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 517525[16].
  • abstinence's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[17].
  • abstinence's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[18].
  • abstinence's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[19].
  • abstinence's described by source is recorded as The Catholic Encyclopedia[20].
  • abstinence's described by source is recorded as Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[21].
  • abstinence's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[22].
  • abstinence's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[23].
  • abstinence's described by source is recorded as The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4th ed.)[24].
  • abstinence's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/abstinence-religion[25].
  • abstinence's BBC Things ID is recorded as 3253a6ba-6549-42ac-961d-97b2270e2960[26].
  • abstinence's Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as Abstinence[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for abstinence include Janaba[28], an Islamic term[29].

Why It Matters

abstinence draws 316 Wikipedia views per month (human_behavior category, ranking #16 of 31).[2] abstinence has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] abstinence is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for abstinence include Janaba[28], an Islamic term[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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