name, noun ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The state or degree of being pure. countable, uncountable

   "The purity of the water was tested in a laboratory."

2. 2
   a woman's virtue or chastity wordnet
3. 3
   the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil wordnet
4. 4
   being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material wordnet

Proper Noun

1. 1
   A female given name from English from the virtue purity.

Synonyms

All synonyms

honorabsolutenessangelicalnessappropriatenessasepsisassured probity

Antonyms

All antonyms

impuritypollution

Example

More examples

"The whiteness of the lily is a symbol of purity."

Etymology

From pure + -ity, from Old French purete, from Latin puritas.

Related phrases

purity ballpurity pledgepurity ringpurity spiralpurity testracial purity

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