PURENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pureness mean? 

• PURENESS (noun)
  The noun PURENESS has 3 senses:

1. being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material

2. the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil

3. a woman's virtue or chastity

  Familiarity information: PURENESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

pureness; purity

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

innocence; pureness; purity; sinlessness; whiteness

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:

A woman's virtue or chastity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

honor; honour; pureness; purity

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

chastity; sexual morality; virtue (morality with respect to sexual relations)

Derivation:

pure (in a state of sexual virginity)