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 Definitions of purity  [ˈpyʊər ɪ ti]  

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Definition of 'purity' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) purity
the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that contaminates, pollutes, etc.

2.  purity
freedom from any admixture or modifying addition.

3.  purity
cleanness.

4.  purity
freedom from guilt or evil; innocence.

5.  purity
freedom from foreign or inappropriate elements; careful correctness:
purity of expression.

6.  purity
the chroma, saturation, or degree of freedom from white of a given color.


Definition of 'purity' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) purity, pureness
being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material

2. (noun) purity, pureness, sinlessness, innocence, whiteness
the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil

3. (noun) honor, honour, purity, pureness
a woman's virtue or chastity


Definition of 'purity' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) purity
≠ impurity
the purity of the air; the purity of her intentions


Definition of 'purity' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) purity
the condition of being pure

2. (noun) purity
freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals

3. (noun) purity
cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt

4. (noun) purity
freedom from guilt or the defilement of sin; innocence; chastity; as, purity of heart or of life

5. (noun) purity
freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views

6. (noun) purity
freedom from foreign idioms, or from barbarous or improper words or phrases; as, purity of style


Definitions of 'purity' The Roycroft Dictionary 

purity
1. A rapt, interested and ecstatic aloofness toward natural processes.

2. A sewerage system that carries off everything, leaving the soul perfectly bald.

3. A condition of the mind that causes one to snoop around in garbage-dumps and start a league.

4. A plan of teaching things to children in which they are not interested.

5. An ethereal nose giving the miraculous power of sensing the lavatory in the Elysian Fields before it smells the flowers. (There is purity of mind, purity of body and purity of speech. Any one person endowed with all three of these modes or purity is blessed, elect, saved, or otherwise atrophied and pickled.)


Translation of 'purity' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: (of sounds) clear; keeping in tune
She sang in a high pure tone.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: suiwerheid Arabic flag Arabic: نَقاء، نَقاوَه، صَفاء، خُ Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: чистота
Brazilian flag Brazilian: pureza Czech flag Czech: čistota German flag German: die Reinheit
Danish flag Danish: renhed Greek flag Greek: αγνότητα, καθαρότητα Spanish flag Spanish: pureza
Estonian flag Estonian: ehedus Farsi flag Farsi: خلوص؛ پاکی Finnish flag Finnish: puhtaus
French flag French: pureté Hebrew flag Hebrew: טוֹהָר Hindi flag Hindi: शुद्धता, पवित्रता
Hungarian flag Hungarian: tisztaság Indonesian flag Indonesian: kemurnian Icelandic flag Icelandic: hreinleiki
Italian flag Italian: purezza Japanese flag Japanese: 純粋さ Korean flag Korean: 순수
Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: grynumas Latvian flag Latvian: tīrība; skaidrība Malay flag Malay: ketulenan
Dutch flag Dutch: zuiverheid Norwegian flag Norwegian: reinhet Polish flag Polish: czystość
Persian flag Persian: خلوص؛ پاکی Pashto flag Pashto: پاكى ، صفايى Portuguese flag Portuguese: pureza
Romanian flag Romanian: puritate Russian flag Russian: чистота Slovak flag Slovak: čistota, rýdzosť
Slovenian flag Slovenian: čistoča Serbian flag Serbian: čistoća Swedish flag Swedish: renhet
Thai flag Thai: ความบริสุทธิ์ Turkish flag Turkish: saflık Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 純凈
Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: чистота; непорочність Urdu flag Urdu: پاکي Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: nguyên chất
Chinese flag Chinese: 纯净

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