| 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: | purity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | innocence |
Synonyms: |
artlessness, blamelessness, guilelessness, innocence |
| Main Entry: | purity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chastity |
Synonyms: |
abstemiousness, continence, honor, virginity, virtue |
| Main Entry: | purity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cleanness |
Synonyms: |
chastity, cleanliness, continence, holiness, innocence, piety, sanctitude |
Antonyms: |
impurity |
| Main Entry: | purity |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2, noun3, noun |
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Adjectives: |
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: | 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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| Main Entry: | celibacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abstinence from sexual activity |
Synonyms: |
abstention, chastity, continence, frigidity, impotence, maidenhood, purity, singleness, virginity, virtue |
Antonyms: |
promiscuousness |
| Main Entry: | clarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clearness |
Synonyms: |
accuracy, articulateness, brightness, certainty, cognizability, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, decipherability, definition, directness, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicability, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, limpidity, limpidness, lucidity, manifestness, obviousness, openness, overtness, palpability, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, plainness, precision, prominence, purity, salience, simplicity, tangibility, transparency, unambiguity, unmistakability |
Antonyms: |
dirtiness, obscurity, unintelligiblity |
| Main Entry: | classicism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | simple style; regularity, restraint |
Synonyms: |
Atticism, Ciceronianism, Hellenism, aesthetic principle, balance, clarity, class, classicalism, conventional formality, dignity, elegance, excellence, finish, formal style, formality, grand style, grandeur, high art, lucidity, majesty, neoclassicism, nobility, objectivity, polish, proportion, propriety, pure taste, purity, rationalism, refinement, rhythm, severity, simplicity, sobriety, sublimity, symmetry |
| Main Entry: | elegance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cultivated beauty, taste |
Synonyms: |
breeding, charm, class, courtliness, cultivation, culture, delicacy, dignity, discernment, distinction, exquisiteness, felicity, gentility, good taste, grace, gracefulness, grandeur, hauteur, lushness, luxury, magnificence, nicety, nobility, noblesse, ornateness, polish, politeness, poshness, propriety, purity, refinement, restraint, rhythm, sophistication, splendor, style, sumptuousness, symmetry, tastefulness |
Antonyms: |
crudeness, inelegance, poor taste, roughness, ugliness |