Fasting

English

Verb

fasting

1. Present participle of fast.

Noun

Fasting (plural Fastings)

1. Action of the verb to fast.

Thesaurus

Albigensianism, Catharism, Day of Atonement, Franciscanism, Lenten, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, Yom Kippur, abstinence, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity, cold purgatorial fires, dog-hungry, empty, eremitism, famished, famishing, flagellation, hair shirt, half-famished, half-starved, hungering, hungry, lustration, maceration, mendicantism, monachism, monasticism, mortification, peckish, penance, penitence, penitential act, penitential exercise, pinched with hunger, purgation, purgatory, puritanism, quadragesimal, ravening, ravenous, repentance, rigor, sackcloth and ashes, self-denial, self-mortification, sharp-set, starved, starving, uneating, unfed, unfilled, voluntary poverty, voracious, wolfish