Synonyms for purity
ˈpyʊər ɪ tipu·ri·ty

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1. puritynoun

   Antonyms:
   impurity

2. puritynoun

   Antonyms:
   impurity

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1. purity

   Virtue (Latin virtus, primarily manly strength or courage, from vir, a man, a hero) is, in its full sense, goodness that is victorious through trial, perhaps through temptation and conflict. Goodness, the being morally good, may be much less than virtue, as lacking the strength that comes from trial and conflict, or it may be very much more than virtue, as rising sublimely above the possibility of temptation and conflict — the infantile as contrasted with the divine goodness. Virtue is distinctively human; we do not predicate it of God. Morality is conformity to the moral law in action, whether in matters concerning ourselves or others, whether with or without right principle. Honesty and probity are used especially of one's relations to his fellow men, probity being to honesty much what virtue in some respects is to goodness; probity is honesty tried and proved, especially in those things that are beyond the reach of legal requirement; above the commercial sense, honesty may be applied to the highest truthfulness of the soul to and with itself and its Maker. Integrity, in the full sense, is moral wholeness without a flaw; when used, as it often is, of contracts and dealings, it has reference to inherent character and principle, and denotes much more than superficial or conventional honesty. Honor is a lofty honesty that scorns fraud or wrong as base and unworthy of itself. Honor rises far above thought of the motto that "honesty is the best policy." Purity is freedom from all admixture, especially of that which debases; it is chastity both of heart and life, but of the life because from the heart. Duty, the rendering of what is due to any person or in any relation, is, in this connection, the fulfilment of moral obligation. Rectitude and righteousness denote conformity to the standard of right, whether in heart or act; righteousness is used especially in the religious sense. Uprightness refers especially to conduct. Virtuousness is a quality of the soul or of action; in the latter sense it is the essence of virtuous action. Compare INNOCENT; JUSTICE; RELIGION.

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   Synonyms:
   chastity, duty, excellence, faithfulness, goodness, honesty, honor, integrity, justice, morality, probity, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, truth, uprightness, virtue, virtuousness, worth, worthiness

   Antonyms:
   evil, vice, viciousness, wickedness, wrong

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1. purity

   Synonyms:
   cleanness, clearness, immaculateness, guiltlessness, innocence

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1. purity, purenessnoun

   being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material

   Synonyms:
   whiteness, honor, innocence, honour, pureness, sinlessness

   Antonyms:
   impureness, impurity

2. purity, pureness, sinlessness, innocence, whitenessnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   ingenuousness, naturalness, white, whiteness, artlessness, sinlessness, honour, innocence, honor, pureness

   Antonyms:
   impurity, impureness

3. honor, honour, purity, purenessnoun

   a woman's virtue or chastity

   Synonyms:
   honor, laurels, award, whiteness, sinlessness, honour, innocence, accolade, pureness

   Antonyms:
   impureness, impurity

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1. puritynoun

   Synonyms:
   cleanness, clearness, immaculateness

2. puritynoun

   Synonyms:
   innocence, virtue, guiltlessness, guilelessness, holiness, honesty, integrity

3. puritynoun

   Synonyms:
   genuineness, excellence

4. puritynoun

   Synonyms:
   modesty, chastity

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1. puritynoun

   Synonyms:
   chastity

   Antonyms:
   impurity

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1. List of paraphrases for "purity":

   fineness, jeffersonian, clean, chant

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1. Christine Daniels:

   Snowflake means purity

2. James Baldwin:

   No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

3. Gerry Connolly:

   Blind loyalty and ideological purity tests must never determine who we trust with securing our nation’s borders, fortifying federal IT systems, caring for seniors and veterans, fighting public health threats, or responding to natural disasters.

4. Michelle Obama:

   One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States, maybe it's true here as well, is a certain kind of rigidity where we say,' Uh, I'm sorry, this is how it's going to be,' and then we start sometimes creating what's called a' circular firing squad,' where you start shooting at your allies because one of them is straying from purity on the issues.

5. Blair Taylor:

   The idea that natural purity translates into racial or national purity, that was one that was very central to the Nazis’ environmental discourse. 'Unspoiled’ forest goes hand in hand with racial purity or something like that. The Nazis saw themselves as environmentalists.