saintliness
Exceptional moral purity
Saintliness is the quality of being exceptionally holy, virtuous, or morally pure.
The term suggests patient suffering, selfless devotion to others, and freedom from ordinary human failings: Her saintliness was evident in how she cared for the dying.
Often used with gentle irony for excessive virtue: I can't compete with your saintliness.
Sincere religious devotion
- sacrednessQuality of being holy
- blessednessState of spiritual grace
- reverenceProfound admiring respect
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
godliness · beatification · canonization · sanctification · consecration · veneration · worship · hallowed
Moral correctness or virtue
- selflessnessPrioritizing others over oneself
- benevolenceDisposition toward doing good
- charityVoluntary aid for others
- compassionConcern for others' distress
mercy · kindness · humility · patience · generosity · altruism · grace · nobility
Freedom from wrongdoing
- immaculateCompletely without blemish
- unblemishedFree from any defect
- spotlessCompletely free of marks
- chastityAbstaining from sexual activity
wholesome · angelic · seraphic · sinlessness · incorruptibility · blamelessness · guilelessness · untainted
Overwhelming intense delight
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
- mysticismPursuit of divine union
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- illuminationProvision of light
vision · stigmata · levitation · transfiguration · divine union · beatific · ineffable · numinous
piety
Sincere religious devotion
- sacrednessQuality of being holy
- blessednessState of spiritual grace
- reverenceProfound admiring respect
devotion · godliness · beatification · canonization · sanctification · consecration · veneration · worship · hallowed · divinity
righteousness
Moral correctness or virtue
- selflessnessPrioritizing others over oneself
- benevolenceDisposition toward doing good
- charityVoluntary aid for others
compassion · mercy · kindness · humility · patience · generosity · altruism · grace · nobility · goodness
innocence
Freedom from wrongdoing
- immaculateCompletely without blemish
- unblemishedFree from any defect
- spotlessCompletely free of marks
chastity · wholesome · angelic · seraphic · sinlessness · incorruptibility · blamelessness · guilelessness · untainted · uncorrupted
ecstasy
Overwhelming intense delight
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
- mysticismPursuit of divine union
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
illumination · vision · stigmata · levitation · transfiguration · divine union · beatific · ineffable · numinous · otherworldly
- holinesssanctification, holiness, purity, sacredness, holy living
- moral statesmorality, immorality, virtue, vice, righteousness
- pietydevoutness, holiness, piousness, godliness, righteousness
- sainthoodcanonization, beatification, Venerable, venerable, martyr
- William Jamespragmatism, stream of consciousness, pluralism, cash value, religious experience
- ethicsmorality, deontology, dignity, utilitarianism, morals
saintlinesswickedness
Moral corruption or evil
evilness · depravity · sinfulness · vileness · immorality
saintlinessungodliness
Lack of religious devotion
godlessness · unholiness · impiety · irreverence · profanity
saintlinesssanctimony
Feigned moral superiority
hypocrisy · sanctimoniousness · self-righteousness · cant · pretense
saint, saintly, sanctity, sanctify, saints, sanctimonious, sainted, sainthood, saintlike