purity

1 being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material [syn: pureness] [ant: impurity]

2 the state of being free from sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil [syn: sinlessness, innocence]

3 a woman's virtue or chastity [syn: honor, honour]

English

Noun

1. The state of being pure.

Antonyms

• impurity

Translations

• Czech: čistota , ryzost
• Esperanto: pureco
• German: Reinheit
• Greek: αγνότητα [aˈɣno̞tiˌta]
• Interlingua: puritate
• Spanish: pureza
• Portuguese: pureza

Purity is the absence of impurity in a substance.

Purity may also refer to:

• Abstinence from immoral vices
• Purity Distilling Company, an alcohol manufacturer involved in the Boston Molasses Disaster
• Black oil, a fictional alien virus in the TV series The X-Files
• A former supermarket brand owned by Woolworths Limited
• A song by Slipknot on their album Slipknot
• The colorfulness of a light source

See also

• Pure

Attic simplicity, Atticism, Christianity, Christlikeness, Christliness, Munsell chroma, absoluteness, angelicalness, appropriateness, asepsis, assured probity, beauty of holiness, blamelessness, blotlessness, brightness, character, chasteness, chastity, chroma, chromatic color, chromaticity, clarity, classical purity, classicalism, classicism, clean slate, cleanliness, cleanly habits, cleanness, clear conscience, clearness, color quality, colorimetric quality, combination, comeliness, commonness, commonplaceness, cool color, correctness, daintiness, decency, decorousness, defectlessness, dignity, directness, discrimination, distinction, ease, elegance, elegancy, elementarity, erectness, estimableness, fairness, fastidiousness, faultlessness, fear of God, felicitousness, felicity, finish, fittingness, flawlessness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, freshness, fundamentality, fusion, godlikeness, godliness, godly-mindedness, good character, good taste, goodness, grace, gracefulness, gracility, guilelessness, guiltlessness, harmlessness, healthfulness, heavenliness, heavenly-mindedness, high ideals, high principles, high-mindedness, holiness, holy-mindedness, homeliness, homogeneity, honesty, honor, honorableness, hospital cleanliness, hue, identity, immaculacy, immaculateness, impeccability, individuality, indivisibility, infallibility, innocence, innocency, innocentness, innocuousness, intactness, integrality, integration, integrity, inviolability, irreducibility, irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, justness, lightness, limpidity, lucidity, matter-of-factness, modesty, monism, moral excellence, moral strength, morality, naturalness, neatness, neutral color, nobility, nothing to hide, odor of sanctity, offenselessness, oneness, ordinariness, organic unity, otherworldliness, particularity, pellucidity, perfection, perspicuity, plainness, polish, prelapsarian state, principles, probity, properness, propriety, prosaicness, prosiness, pureness, pureness of heart, rectitude, refinement, reproachlessness, reputability, respectability, restraint, righteousness, sainthood, saintlikeness, saintliness, saintship, salubrity, sanctitude, sanctity, saturation, seemliness, selfsameness, seraphicalness, severity, sexual innocence, simpleness, simplicity, singleness, singularity, sinlessness, smoothness, snowiness, solidarity, solidification, solidity, spiritual-mindedness, spirituality, spotlessness, stainlessness, starkness, sterility, straightforwardness, taintlessness, taste, tastefulness, terseness, tidiness, tint, tone, unadulteration, unaffectedness, unblemishedness, unblottedness, uncorruptness, undefiledness, undividedness, unearthliness, unguiltiness, unification, uniformity, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness, uniqueness, unity, univocity, unmixedness, unsoiledness, unsophistication, unspottedness, unstainedness, unsulliedness, untaintedness, unworldliness, uprightness, upstandingness, value, virginity, virtue, virtuousness, warm color, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, worthiness