virginity
Never been intimate
Virginity is the state of never having had sexual intercourse.
The concept carries heavy cultural and religious weight, traditionally prized in women before marriage: She lost her virginity on prom night.
The word extends metaphorically to any first experience: I lost my political virginity volunteering for that campaign.
What counts as "losing" virginity varies by definition and perspective.
Abstaining from sexual activity
- celibacyAbstaining from intimate relations
- maidenhoodUnmarried young womanhood
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
- modestyAbsence of vanity
innocence · untouched · unsullied · unblemished · immaculate · undefiled · pristine · wholesomeness
Freedom from wrongdoing
- naivetyInnocent lack of experience
- first timeMaiden occurrence
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
- uninitiatedLacking specialized knowledge
greenness · beginner · novice · newcomer · untried · unfamiliar · awkward · nervous
Worthy of reverence
- sanctityQuality of being inviolable
- vowSolemn personal commitment
- consecrationDedicating to sacred purpose
- purity cultureIdeology emphasizing virginity before marriage
purity ring · purity pledge · Madonna · Vestal · nun · holy · devotion · offering
Vaginal opening membrane
- intactNot damaged or altered
- unbrokenNot damaged or interrupted
- deflorationLoss of virginity
- consummationFinal completion or achievement
bleeding · membrane · rupture · penetration · first time · wedding night · examination · intactness
High regard, moral dignity
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- familyRelated people together
- marriageFormal union between partners
- dowryMarital property transfer
bride price · purity culture · social construct · double standard · patriarchy · control · tradition · expectation
Loss of virginity
- first timeMaiden occurrence
- consummationFinal completion or achievement
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
- experiencePractical knowledge from life
transition · milestone · cherry · popped · taken · given · lost · surrender
chastity
Abstaining from sexual activity
- celibacyAbstaining from intimate relations
- maidenhoodUnmarried young womanhood
- virtueMoral goodness or merit
modesty · innocence · untouched · unsullied · unblemished · immaculate · undefiled · pristine · wholesomeness · decency
innocence
Freedom from wrongdoing
- naivetyInnocent lack of experience
- first timeMaiden occurrence
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
uninitiated · greenness · beginner · novice · newcomer · untried · unfamiliar · awkward · nervous · learning
sacred
Worthy of reverence
- sanctityQuality of being inviolable
- vowSolemn personal commitment
- consecrationDedicating to sacred purpose
purity culture · purity ring · purity pledge · Madonna · Vestal · nun · holy · devotion · offering · sacrifice
hymen
Vaginal opening membrane
- intactNot damaged or altered
- unbrokenNot damaged or interrupted
- deflorationLoss of virginity
consummation · bleeding · membrane · rupture · penetration · first time · wedding night · examination · intactness · proof
honor
High regard, moral dignity
dowry · bride price · purity culture · social construct · double standard · patriarchy · control · tradition · expectation · stigma
defloration
Loss of virginity
- first timeMaiden occurrence
- consummationFinal completion or achievement
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
experience · transition · milestone · cherry · popped · taken · given · lost · surrender
- sexualitysexual orientation, sexual behavior, erotica, sexual identity, bisexual
- sexual customssexual norms, sexual taboos, marriage customs, courtship, chastity
- sexual ethicssexual morality, sexual ethics, chastity, adultery, human sexuality
- religious sexualitychastity, modesty, sexual purity, sexual ethics, sexual morality
- adolescencepuberty, teenager, coming-of-age, growing up, teen
- chastitychastity, celibacy, abstinence, purity, sexual abstinence
virginitydefloration
Loss of virginity
carnal knowledge · experience · consummation · sexual awakening · first time
virginitypromiscuity
Frequent casual sexual encounters
licentiousness · libertinism · wantonness · carnality · debauchery
virginitydishonor
Loss of respect
impurity · disgrace · unchastity · corruption · defilement
- losing virginityFirst act of intercourse
- lose one's virginityFirst sexual intercourse
- lose virginity
- lost one's virginityFirst act of intercourse
- losing one's virginityInitial sexual experience
- virginity pledgeOath of premarital abstinence