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purity

purity

25 3.1
The state of having no dirt or other things mixed in
  • noun
  • /ˈpjʊrɪti/
translation icon : pureza
  • Mr. Vincent asked me to talk about purity today.
  • high purity
  • water purity
  • food purity

Not all the stuff around it, but just the, the purity of the game.

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Examples

  • Like the purity of the competition and people just wanting to be winners and champions.

  • You also have the ability and the training to assess or or improve purity yourself.

  • Was such purity in body and soul.

  • The purity of her blood seems to be the reason why it is working.

  • The purpose, of course, is to ensure a minimum level of purity in each of these elements.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Simply put, the utility is maintaining its water purity levels at a lower cost than before.

    Academic text (1998)
  • A thought that is dazzling in its purity.

  • The new wilderness ethic placed high value on the purity of nature.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The purity of white will cool the blush of your cheek.

  • The purity of the water in the lake is essential for the health of the local wildlife.

Synonyms

cleanness
vspurity
1 1.0

The state of being free from dirt and stains

is about being unmixed and free from adulteration rather than just removing dirt
pureness
vspurity
3.7

Being not mixed with anything else

is the more common form used in general writing
immaculateness
vspurity
8.7

Perfect cleanliness without any stains or dirt

focuses on absence of contamination or mixture rather than only appearance
pristineness
vspurity
7.1

A condition of being very clean and unchanged from its original form

is concerned with absence of contamination or mixture rather than original state
clearness
vspurity
2.2

How easy something is to see through, like clean water

emphasizes being unmixed and unadulterated rather than visual clarity

Antonyms

contamination
  • Specialized
76 4.8

Harmful things that make food, water, or places unsafe

mixture
  • Specialized
55 3.5

A substance made of two or more different parts not chemically joined and not in fixed amounts

19 5.1

A small unwanted substance in a material that can make it unsafe

How Pure

purity
25 3.1
sterility
  • Specialized
1 6.6
cleanliness
26 1.0
impurity
19 5.1
contamination
  • Specialized
76 4.8
adulteration
  • Specialized
1 7.7

Surface Forms

purity singular
purities plural

Morphology

purity = pure (transparent) = pure + ity

Formed by adding the productive noun-forming suffix '-ity' to the adjective 'pure', yielding the state or quality 'of being pure'.

Etymology

Purity comes from the Latin purus, which means 'clean' or 'not mixed', and it shares the same root as pure. So purity means being free from dirt or other things mixed in.