SINLESSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sinlessness mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SINLESSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("sinlessness" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

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

cleanness (without moral defects)

Derivation:

sinless (free from sin)

 Context examples 

How colorless by contrast appeared the sinlessness which came from inability to sin, the conquest which was attained by flying from the enemy!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)