Term: asceticism: the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state
Candidate hypernym: doctrine: a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school → 1
Candidate hypernym: polygonaceae: a family of plants of order Polygonales chiefly of the north temperate zone; includes the buckwheats → 0
Candidate hypernym: podargus: type genus of the Podargidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: morphology: the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms → 0
Candidate hypernym: hypochondrium: the upper region of the abdomen just below the lowest ribs on either side of the epigastrium → 0
Candidate hypernym: forte: (music) loud → 0
Candidate hypernym: abstract expressionism: a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions; the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles → 0
Candidate hypernym: passenger: a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it → 0
Candidate hypernym: whole milk: milk from which no constituent (such as fat) has been removed → 0
Candidate hypernym: bull: uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle → 0
Candidate hypernym: tumor suppressor gene: a suppressor gene that blocks unscheduled cell division → 0