Celibacy

Ce-lib′a-cy

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Noun.

[See

Celibate

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Noun.

]

The state of being unmarried; single life, esp. that of a bachelor, or of one bound by vows not to marry.

“The celibacy of the clergy.”

Hallom.

Celibacy

CELIBACY

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Noun.

An unmarried state; a single life. It is most frequently if not always applied to males, or to a voluntary single life.

They look on celibacy as an accursed state.

celibacy

English

Alternative forms

cælibacy (archaic)

Noun

celibacy ‎(countable and uncountable, plural celibacies)

Abstaining from marriage; the state of being unmarried.
(by extension) Abstaining from sexual relations.

Synonyms

sexlessness

Related terms

celibate

Translations

state of being unmarried

Asturian: celibatu m
Bulgarian: безбра́чие n ‎(bezbráčie), ергенство n ‎(ergenstvo)
Catalan: celibat m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 獨身 (zh), 独身 (zh) ‎(dúshēn)
Czech: svobodný stav, celibát (cs) m, (without women): bezženství, celibát (cs) m
Finnish: selibaatti (fi)
French: célibat (fr) m
Galician: celibato m
German: Zölibat (de) m, n
Greek: αγαμία (el) f ‎(agamía)
Hebrew: פרישות f ‎(prīshūth)

Hungarian: cölibátus (hu)
Irish: aontumha f
Italian: celibato (it) m
Japanese: 独身 ‎(どくしん, dokushin)
Norwegian: sølibat n
Polish: celibat (pl) m
Portuguese: celibato (pt) m
Russian: безбра́чие (ru) n ‎(bezbráčije), целиба́т (ru) m ‎(celibát)
Scottish Gaelic: aontamhachd f
Slovak: celibát m
Spanish: celibato (es) m
Swedish: celibat (sv) n
Turkish: bekârlık

abstaining from sexual relations

Bulgarian: сексуа́лно въздържа́ние n ‎(seksuálno vǎzdǎržánie)
Czech: celibát (cs) m
Finnish: selibaatti (fi)
French: célibat (fr) m
German: Zölibat (de) m, n, Keuschheit (de) f
Greek: αγαμία (el) f ‎(agamía)
Hungarian: cölibátus (hu)

Norwegian: sølibat n
Polish: celibat (pl) m
Portuguese: celibato (pt) m
Russian: воздержа́ние (ru) n ‎(vozderžánije), сексуа́льное воздержа́ние n ‎(sɛksuálʹnoje vozderžánije)
Scottish Gaelic: aontamhachd f
Spanish: celibato (es)
Swedish: celibat (sv) n
Turkish: bekârlık

External links

celibacy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
celibacy in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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