continence (n.)

• abnegation
• abstemiousness
• abstention
• abstinence
• asceticism
• avoidance
• bachelorhood
• boundary
• bounds
• calm
• calmness
• celibacy
• chasteness
• chastity
• confinement
• conservatism
• constraint
• continency
• control
• cool
• discipline
• dispassion
• evenness
• fast
• gentleness
• gymnosophy
• impartiality
• intactness
• judiciousness
• lenity
• limit
• limitation
• maidenhead
• maidenhood
• mildness
• misogamy
• misogyny
• moderateness
• moderation
• moderationism
• monasticism
• neutrality
• nonviolence
• pacifism
• prescription
• proscription
• prudence
• purity
• qualification
• repose
• restraint
• restriction
• self-abnegation
• self-control
• self-denial
• self-restraint
• serenity
• singleness
• sobriety
• spinsterhood
• stability
• steadiness
• teetotalism
• temperance
• temperateness
• tranquillity
• vegetarianism
• virginity