purity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The state or degree of being pure.

   The purity of the water was tested in a laboratory.

2. 2
   noun

   a woman's virtue or chastity

3. 3
   noun

   the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong

4. 4
   noun

   being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material

5. 5
   name

   A female given name from English from the virtue purity.

Etymology

From pure + -ity, from Old French purete, from Latin puritas.