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purity

noun
/ˈpjʊəɹɪti/UK/ˈpjʊɹɪti/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from *pewH-✻ — “to cleanse, purify”
  2. derived from pūrus — “clean, free from dirt or filth, unmixed, plain”
  3. derived from pur
  4. inherited from pure
  5. suffixed as purity — “pure + ity”

Definitions

  1. The state or degree of being pure.

    • The purity of the water was tested in a laboratory.
    • She admired the purity of the child’s laughter.
    • Gold is valued according to its level of purity.

  2. A female given name from English from the virtue purity.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at purity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01purity02pure03imperfections04imperfection05impurity06immorality07immoral

A definitional loop anchored at purity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at purity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA