cleanliness

[ klen-lee-nis ]
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noun
  1. the quality, state, or habit of being cleanly, or keeping oneself clean and neat: personal cleanliness.

  2. the quality, state, or habit of being kept clean, as a place or object: the cleanliness of the restaurant.

  1. the state or quality of being morally pure or upright:spiritual cleanliness.

Origin of cleanliness

1
First recorded in 1425–75; Middle English clenlynesse, clenlines , see origin at cleanly, -ness

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