purity

(pyʊr'ĭ-tē)
n.

1. The quality or condition of being pure.
2. A quantitative assessment of homogeneity or uniformity.
3. Freedom from sin or guilt; innocence; chastity: "Teach your children . . . the belief in purity of body, mind and soul" (Emmeline Pankhurst).
4. The absence in speech or writing of slang or other elements deemed inappropriate to good style.
5. The degree to which a color is free from being mixed with other colors.

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noun

1. The condition of being clean and free of contaminants: clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, pureness, taintlessness. See clean/dirty.
2. The condition of being chaste: chastity, decency, innocence, modesty, virginity, virtue, virtuousness. See good/bad, restraint/unrestraint, sex/asexual.

n

Definition: cleanness
Antonyms: impurity, pollution

n

Definition: virtue
Antonyms: immorality

IN BRIEF: The state of having no guilt or sin.

A person who cares about the earth will resonate with its purity. — Sally Fox

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Quotes:

"To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality." - Guillaume Apollinaire

"No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable." - James Baldwin

"Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it." - Georges Bernanos

"By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity." - Thomas Kempis

"Purity of heart is to will one thing." - Soren Kierkegaard

"In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable." - Primo Levi

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For a list of words related to purity, see:

• Mystical States and Experiences - purity: perfection of spirit; absence of flaws or disharmony

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - renhed

Nederlands (Dutch)
zuiverheid, puurheid, reinheid, kuisheid

Français (French)
n. - pureté

Deutsch (German)
n. - Reinheit, Keuschheit

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - καθαρότητα, αγνότητα, γνησιότητα

Italiano (Italian)
purezza

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pureza (f)

Русский (Russian)
чистота, невинность

Español (Spanish)
n. - pureza, castidad, inocencia

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - renhet

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
纯净, 清洁, 贞洁, 纯洁, 清白, 纯粹

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 純淨, 清潔, 貞潔, 純潔, 清白, 純粹

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 청정, 깨끗함, 청결

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 純粋, 清潔, 清浄, 潔白

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نقاوة, صفاوة, طهارة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮טוהר, ניקיון, חירות מלכלוך גופני ומוסרי‬

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