Ascetic vs. Fanatical

Asceticadjective

Of or relating to ascetics

Fanaticaladjective

Having an extreme, irrational zeal or enthusiasm for a specific cause.

Asceticadjective

Characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure.

Fanaticaladjective

Characteristic of, or relating to, fanaticism; fanatic.

Asceticnoun

One who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.

Fanaticaladjective

marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea;

‘rabid isolationist’;

Asceticadjective

Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.

‘The stern ascetic rigor of the Temple discipline.’;

Asceticnoun

In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things.

‘I am far from commending those ascetics that take up their quarters in deserts.’;

Asceticnoun

practices self denial as spiritual discipline

Asceticadjective

pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline;

‘ascetic practices’;

Asceticadjective

practicing great self-denial;

‘Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it’; ‘a desert nomad's austere life’; ‘a spartan diet’; ‘a spartan existence’;

Asceticadjective

characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons

‘an ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labour’;

Asceticnoun

a person who follows an ascetic life.