HOLINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does holiness mean? 

• HOLINESS (noun)
  The noun HOLINESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being holy

  Familiarity information: HOLINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOLINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being holy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

holiness; sanctitude; sanctity

Hypernyms ("holiness" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

holy (belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power)

unhallowed; unholy (not hallowed or consecrated)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "holiness"):

sacredness (the quality of being sacred)

Antonym:

unholiness (the quality of being unholy)

Derivation:

holy (belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power)

 Context examples 

If that be holiness, I could show you hogs in this forest who are fit to head the calendar.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They rode in silence, each with his treasure in his hand, glancing at it from time to time, and scarce able to believe that chance had made them sole owners of relics of such holiness and worth that every abbey and church in Christendom would have bid eagerly for their possession.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)