| Main Entry: | pureness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | purity |
Synonyms: |
clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, immaculacy, immaculateness, stainlessness, taintlessness, unsulliedness, untaintedness, whiteness |
| Main Entry: | purity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the state of being pure |
Synonyms: |
cleanliness, cleanness, immaculacy, immaculateness, pureness, stainlessness, unsulliedness, untaintedness, whiteness |
| Main Entry: | cleanness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | purity |
Synonyms: |
clarity, cleanliness, clearness, freshness, pureness, spotlessness |
| Notes: | cleanliness is habitually neat and clean while cleanness is the state of being clean or without dirt |
| Main Entry: | taintlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | purity |
Synonyms: |
clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, immaculacy, immaculateness, pureness, stainlessness, unsulliedness, untaintedness, whiteness |
| Main Entry: | cleanness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | purity |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2, noun3, noun |
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artistic, attic, chaste, ciceronian, classical, continent, correct, decent, decorous, delicate, easy, elegant, euphemistic, euphonious, felicitous, graceful, happy, honest, intemerate, jannock, meracious, modest, natural, neat, neatly expressed, neatly put, numerose, platonic, polished, pristine, pure, readable, rhythmical, saxon, smectic, tripping, unaffected, undefiled, unlabored, virtuous, well put
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| Concept: | Cleanness. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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-nouns
cleanness, cleanliness; purity; cleaning; purification, defecation; purgation, lustration; detersion, abstersion; epuration, mundation; ablution, lavation, colature; disinfection; drainage, sewerage., lavatory, laundry, washhouse; washerwoman, laundress, dhobi, laundryman, washerman; scavenger, dustman, sweep; white wings [U.S.], white gloves., brush; broom, besom, mop, rake, shovel, sieve, riddle, screen, filter; blotter., napkin, cloth, maukin, malkin, handkerchief, towel, sudary; doyley, doily, duster, sponge, mop, swab., cover, drugget., wash, lotion, detergent, cathartic, purgative; purifier; disinfectant; aperient; benzene, benzine, benzol, benolin; bleaching powder, bleach, chloride of lime, dentifrice, deobstruent, laxative.
-verbs
be clean, render clean., clean, cleanse; mundify, rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop, sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush up., wash, lave, launder, buck; absterge, deterge; decrassify; clear, purify; depurate, despumate, defecate; purge, expurgate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack; filter, filtrate; drain, strain., disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize; whitewash; castrate, emasculate., sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep., rout out, clear out, sweep out; make a clean sweep of.
-adjectives
clean, cleanly; pure; immaculale; spotless, stainless, taintless; trig; without a stain, unstained, unspotted, unsoiled, unsullied, untainted, uninfected; sweet, sweet as a nut., neat, spruce, tidy, trim, gimp, clean as a new penny, like a cat in pattens; cleaned; kempt., abstergent, cathartic, cleansing, purifying.
-adverbs
neatly; clean as a whistle.
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Antonyms: |
uncleanness |
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| Concept: | Purity. |
| Category: | 4. Moral practice |
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-nouns
purity; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity, pucelage, virginity., vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus; Lucretia, Diana; prude.
-adjectives
pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous; virginibus puerisque; chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic.
-phrases
"as chaste as unsunn'd snow" [Cymbeline]; "a soul as white as heaven" [Beaumonth & Fl.]; "'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity" [Milton]; "to the
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Antonyms: |
impurity |
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