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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.
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| Definition of 'purity' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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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
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1. (noun) purity
≠ impurity
the purity of the air; the purity of her intentions
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| Definition of 'purity' |
Webster Dictionary |
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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
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| Definitions of 'purity' |
The Roycroft Dictionary |
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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.)
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Sense: (of sounds) clear; keeping in tune
She sang in a high pure tone.
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 Afrikaans: suiwerheid |
 Arabic: نَقاء، نَقاوَه، صَفاء، خُ |
 Bulgarian: чистота |
 Brazilian: pureza |
 Czech: čistota |
 German: die Reinheit |
 Danish: renhed |
 Greek: αγνότητα, καθαρότητα |
 Spanish: pureza |
 Estonian: ehedus |
 Farsi: خلوص؛ پاکی |
 Finnish: puhtaus |
 French: pureté |
 Hebrew: טוֹהָר |
 Hindi: शुद्धता, पवित्रता |
 Hungarian: tisztaság |
 Indonesian: kemurnian |
 Icelandic: hreinleiki |
 Italian: purezza |
 Japanese: 純粋さ |
 Korean: 순수 |
 Lithuanian: grynumas |
 Latvian: tīrība; skaidrība |
 Malay: ketulenan |
 Dutch: zuiverheid |
 Norwegian: reinhet |
 Polish: czystość |
 Persian: خلوص؛ پاکی |
 Pashto: پاكى ، صفايى |
 Portuguese: pureza |
 Romanian: puritate |
 Russian: чистота |
 Slovak: čistota, rýdzosť |
 Slovenian: čistoča |
 Serbian: čistoća |
 Swedish: renhet |
 Thai: ความบริสุทธิ์ |
 Turkish: saflık |
 Taiwanese: 純凈 |
 Ukrainian: чистота; непорочність |
 Urdu: پاکي |
 Vietnamese: nguyên chất |
 Chinese: 纯净 |
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