purity

American  

[pyoor-i-tee] / ˈpyʊər ɪ ti /

noun

1. the condition or quality of being pure; freedom from anything that debases, contaminates, pollutes, etc..

   the purity of drinking water.

2. freedom from any admixture or modifying addition.

3. ceremonial or ritual cleanness.

4. freedom from guilt or evil; innocence.

5. physical chastity; virginity.

6. freedom from foreign or inappropriate elements; careful correctness.

   purity of expression.

7. Optics. the chroma, saturation, or degree of freedom from white of a given color.

8. cleanness or spotlessness, as of garments.

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purity British  

/ ˈpjʊərɪtɪ /

noun

1. the state or quality of being pure

2. physics a measure of the amount of a single-frequency colour in a mixture of spectral and achromatic colours

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Other Word Forms

• hyperpurity noun
• superpurity noun

Etymology

Origin of purity

1175–1225; < Late Latin pūritās ( pure, -ity ); replacing Middle English pur ( e ) te < Anglo-French < Late Latin, as above

Example Sentences

Currently, that includes high purity water on chips.

From Barron's

Getting in more vegetables isn’t a purity test.

From Salon

“I taped those photographs to the wall, not as a gesture of disrespectful grunginess, but as a gesture of purity,” he adds.

From Los Angeles Times

The purity of the water is also key to the creation and maintenance of Olympic ice.

From BBC

The researchers also used fidelity measurements to evaluate performance, confirming reliable switching behavior along with high purity of each mode.

From Science Daily

Related Words

• cleanliness