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IMPURENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impureness mean? 

IMPURENESS (noun)
  The noun IMPURENESS has 1 sense:

1. the condition of being impureplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


IMPURENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The condition of being impure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

impureness; impurity

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

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

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

adulteration; debasement (being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating)

admixture; alloy (the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something)

contamination; taint (the state of being contaminated)

dirtiness (the state of containing dirty impurities)

putridity (the state of being putrid)

pollution (undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities)

Derivation:

impure (having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws)

impure (combined with extraneous elements)


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