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purity

purity

19 3.3
The state of not having had sex, often used about women
  • noun
  • /ˈpjʊrɪti/
  • Formal
: castidad
  • The community valued her purity and honored her commitment to remain chaste until marriage.
  • sexual purity
  • purity of women
  • restore purity

At first, he says in your sex life, preserve purity as far as you can.

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Examples

  • My purity of soul...

  • His poem celebrated the purity of her heart and spirit, capturing her innocence beautifully.

  • Her purity is what makes everything good in the movie.

  • At first, he says in your sex life, preserve purity as far as you can.

  • A symbol of her virgin purity.

  • I will not give myself to a man; it is beyond reason and the purity I associate with womanhood.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • They see an innocent young girl and they just want to, prey on her purity.

  • There's a purity to beautiful things that I've never been able to find in another human being.

  • In her untouched purity, she embodies for him the dream of an unattainable world of beauty.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • She wore a white dress to symbolize her purity on her wedding day.

Synonyms

chastity
vspurity
36 8.1

A state in which a person does not have sex, often for religious or moral reasons

is focused on being morally and sexually blameless rather than on avoiding sex
virtue
vspurity
  • Archaic
22 4.4

Sexual purity that some people expect for moral reasons

is used mainly for a woman's moral and sexual blamelessness
innocence
vspurity
21 3.6

Being free from doing wrong or evil things

is used more for sexual and women's moral blamelessness than general naivety
honor
vspurity
  • Archaic
12 9.9

A woman's reputation for sexual purity in older times

is about inner moral and sexual blamelessness not public reputation
pureness
vspurity
1 5.9

A woman's not having sex before marriage

is the same concept but appears as the more common modern form
cleanness
vspurity
  • Literature
1 6.0

The state of having honest thoughts and actions

is applied especially to a woman's sexual blamelessness and moral state
sinlessness
vspurity
1 9.6

Being free from wrong and having an innocent heart

is focused on sexual blamelessness for women rather than general freedom from sin
pristineness
vspurity
1 7.1

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

is used for moral and sexual blamelessness rather than an untouched physical state
maidenliness
vspurity
  • Archaic
9.9

A gentle, modest, and innocent way of acting or looking like a young woman

is focused on inner moral and sexual blamelessness rather than outward style

Antonyms

47 4.6

A situation where people lose moral principles and act badly

20 5.1

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

debauchery
  • NSFW
17 9.1

Too much drinking and sex for pleasure

How Chaste

purity
  • Formal
19 3.3
virginity
  • NSFW
113 4.3
chastity
36 8.1
promiscuity
  • NSFW
18 7.9

Surface Forms

purity singular
purities plural

Morphology

purity = pure (transparent) = pure + ity

The sexual/moral innocence sense is an expected extension of 'pure' (innocent/untainted), so the derivation is clear to learners.

Etymology

Purity comes from the Latin purus 'clean', like the word pure, and people used 'clean' as a way to talk about innocence. That's why purity can mean being morally or sexually innocent.