purity
Freedom from contamination
Purity is the state of being unmixed, uncontaminated, or free from foreign elements.
Gold of high purity contains few impurities.
Water purity matters for drinking.
The word extends to moral and sexual contexts: purity of heart, purity rings symbolizing abstinence until marriage.
Purity can suggest innocence but also obsessive exclusion—ethnic purity, ideological purity.
The purity of her intentions was never in doubt.
Absence of carnal experience
- celibacyAbstaining from intimate relations
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- modestyAbsence of vanity
continence · maidenhood · vow · wedding night · white dress · honor · temperance · self-restraint
Sacred spiritual purity
- sanctityQuality of being inviolable
- sacrednessQuality of being holy
- divineOf or from gods
- sacredWorthy of reverence
consecration · blessing · baptism · ritual cleansing · ablution · absolution · grace · salvation
Life's earliest phase
- naivetyInnocent lack of experience
- guilelessnessAbsence of cunning
- angelicDivinely pure and good
- wholesomeConducive to well-being
unspoiled · uncorrupted · wide-eyed · lamb · dove · ingenue · babe · cherub
Practices maintaining cleanliness
- sanitationCleanliness for public health
- sterilizationComplete elimination of microbes
- disinfectionEliminating pathogens from surfaces
- antisepticMicrobe-killing substance
spotlessness · immaculateness · freshness · decontamination · soap · bleach · filtration · distillation
Completely unmixed, genuine
- uncutNot reduced or shortened
- refinedPurified or cultured
- undilutedNot mixed with anything
- concentratedGathered or intensified
100% · unalloyed · fine · sterling · 24-karat · proof · assay · grade
virginity
Absence of carnal experience
- celibacyAbstaining from intimate relations
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
modesty · continence · maidenhood · vow · wedding night · white dress · honor · temperance · self-restraint · decency
holiness
Sacred spiritual purity
- sanctityQuality of being inviolable
- sacrednessQuality of being holy
- divineOf or from gods
sacred · consecration · blessing · baptism · ritual cleansing · ablution · absolution · grace · salvation · righteousness
childhood
Life's earliest phase
- naivetyInnocent lack of experience
- guilelessnessAbsence of cunning
- angelicDivinely pure and good
wholesome · unspoiled · uncorrupted · wide-eyed · lamb · dove · ingenue · babe · cherub · sinless
hygiene
Practices maintaining cleanliness
- sanitationCleanliness for public health
- sterilizationComplete elimination of microbes
- disinfectionEliminating pathogens from surfaces
antiseptic · spotlessness · immaculateness · freshness · decontamination · soap · bleach · filtration · distillation · uncontaminated
unadulterated
Completely unmixed, genuine
concentrated · 100% · unalloyed · fine · sterling · 24-karat · proof · assay · grade · quality
minimalism
Aesthetic of reduction
plain · uncomplicated · austere · essential · sparse · uncluttered · monastic · zen · clarity · clean lines
- spiritualitysacred, enlightened, divine, holy, spiritual growth
- abstinencesobriety, celibacy, chastity, teetotalism, fasting
- innocenceinnocent, innocence, blameless, naive, naivety
- quality statefreshness, ripeness, cleanliness, dirtiness, newness
- childlike innocenceinnocence, wonder, curiosity, playfulness, imagination
- golden agegolden age, paradise, Eden, utopia, Arcadia
purityimpurity
Substance degrading another's quality
contamination · adulteration · pollution · defilement · taint
puritycorruption
Dishonest abuse of power
wickedness · evil · sinfulness · immorality · vice
purityunchastity
Sexual impurity or misconduct
immodesty · promiscuity · lewdness · indecency · licentiousness
- air purifierMachine filtering indoor atmosphere
- purified waterWater with contaminants removed
- water purifierDevice removing contaminants
- purity testMeasuring adherence to standards
- water purificationRendering liquid safe to drink
- moral purityUntainted ethical state
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