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PURENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A woman's virtue or chastity
Synonyms:
honor; honour; pureness; purity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("pureness" is a kind of...):
chastity; sexual morality; virtue (morality with respect to sexual relations)
Derivation:
pure (in a state of sexual virginity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil
Synonyms:
innocence; pureness; purity; sinlessness; whiteness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("pureness" is a kind of...):
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pureness"):
cleanness (without moral defects)
Derivation:
pure (in a state of sexual virginity)
pure ((used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material
Synonyms:
pureness; purity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("pureness" is a kind of...):
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
Attribute:
pure (free of extraneous elements of any kind)
impure (combined with extraneous elements)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pureness"):
plainness (the state of being unmixed with other material)
Derivation:
pure ((of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black)
pure (free of extraneous elements of any kind)
