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Definition: Purity |
PurityNoun1. Being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material. 2. The state of being free from sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil. 3. A woman's virtue or chastity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "purity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Physics | In lighter-than-air aircraft. The percentage of lifting gas in a given volume. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | The intersection of a line passing through a particular colour identified by the coordinates x and y with the boundary of the chromaticity diagram is the dominant wavelength, and the relative distance out from equal-energy white W represents its purity. Source: European Union. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | An author's diction is pure when he uses such words only as belong to the idiom of the language. The only standard of purity is the practice of the best writers and speakers. A violation of purity is called a barbarism. Unlike the Latin, Greek, or Hebrew, the English is a living language, and, like all living organisms, manifests its life by taking in new material and casting off old waste continually. Science, art, and philosophy give rise to new ideas which, in turn, demand new words for their expression. Of these, some gain a permanent foothold, while others float awhile upon the currents of conversation and newspaper literature and then disappear. Good usage is the only real authority in the choice of reputable words; and to determine, in every case, what good usage dictates, is not an easy matter. Authors, like words, must be tested by time before their forms of expression may become a law for others. Pope, in his Essay on Criticism, laid down a rule which, for point and brevity, has never been excelled: "In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new or old; Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Synonyms: PuritySynonyms: honor (n), honour (n), innocence (n), pureness (n), sinlessness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: impurity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cleanness | Noun: cleanness, cleanliness; Adjective: purity; cleaning; Verb: purification, defecation; Verb: purgation, lustration; detersion, abstersion; epuration, mundation; ablution, lavation, colature; disinfection; Verb: drainage, sewerage. |
Elegance | Noun: elegance, purity, grace, ease; gracefulness, readiness; Adjective: concinnity, euphony, numerosity; Atticism, classicalism, classicism. |
Probity | Noun: probity, integrity, rectitude; uprightness; Adjective: honesty, faith; honor; bonne foi, good faith, bona fides; purity, clean hands. |
Purity | Noun: purity; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity, pucelage, virginity. |
Simpleness | Noun: simpleness; Adjective: purity, homogeneity. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I admire its purity, its sense of survival; unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. (Alien; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett) Enough of symbolism and these escapist themes of purity and innocence. (8 1/2; writing credit: Federico Fellini; Ennio Flaiano) I sensed a, a purity of spirit. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) | |
Lyrics | I can snatch a little purity (Loves Me Like a Rock; performing artist: Paul Simon; writing credit: Paul Simon) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Purity Squad (1945) | |
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![]() | Grading seed which farmer has brought to office of Border King co-op seed exchange at Williams, Minnesota. This test is to ascertain purity and quality of seed before the price is set on it. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Racial purity is America's security. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Buddha | There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. |
Guillaume Apollinaire | The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. |
| To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. | |
Henry David Thoreau | The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. |
Hosea Ballou | Purity in person and in morals is true godliness. |
Margaret Fuller | It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. |
Soren Kierkegaard | Purity of heart is to will one thing. |
Thomas p Kempis | By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity. |
| Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him. | |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Then, also, the blameless purity of her life during all these years in which she had been set apart to infamy, was reckoned largely in her favour. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | a love wholly founded in purity. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The engineer does not forget at night, or his nature does not, that he has beheld this vision of serenity and purity once at least during the day. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These include tests for sterility, pyrogenicity, purity, and safety. (references) | |
There are no assurances with regard to the exact dosage, efficacy, or purity of a given batch of a supplement. (references) | ||
Heroin overdose is a particular risk on the street, where the amount and purity of the drug cannot be accurately known. (references) | ||
Business | China needs to import high-quality and high purity reagents to meet domestic market demand. (references) | |
Such characteristics make dyestuff more suitable as colorant for transparent or high optical purity materials. (references) | ||
Economic History | Thailand | Thailand has extensive legislation aimed at the protection of the environment, including the National Environmental Quality Act, the Hazardous Substances Act, and the Factories Act . Food purity and drug efficacy are controlled and regulated by a Food and Drug Administration with authority similar to its U.S. counterpart . Likewise, labor and employment standards are set and regulated by the Ministry of Labor. (references) |
Political Economy | GHANA | The Ghana Standards Board, the national testing authority, subscribes to accepted international practices for the testing of imports for purity and efficacy. (references) |
Trade | El Salvador | K. Plain silver coins of less than 0.900 purity. (references) |
Worker Rights | Korea | Ideological purity is as important as professional competence in deciding who receives a particular job, and foreign companies that have established joint ventures report that all their employees must be hired from lists submitted by the KWP. Factory and farm workers are organized into councils, which do have an impact on management decisions. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk. Asked how he knew that an elephant was going on a journey, the illustrious Jo. Miller cast a reproachful look upon his tormentor, and answered, absently: "When it is ajar," and threw himself from a high promontory into the sea. Thus perished in his pride the most famous humorist of antiquity, leaving to mankind a heritage of woe! No successor worthy of the title has appeared, though Mr. Edward bok, of The Ladies' Home Journal, is much respected for the purity and sweetness of his personal character. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | Because experience witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and efficacy of Religion, have had a contrary operation. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | On their preservation and in their utmost purity everything will depend. |
James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | The purity of official agents, whether rightfully or wrongfully, is suspected, and the character of the government suffers in the estimation of the people. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We can make crystals of exceptional purity to produce super computers, creating jobs, technologies, and medical breakthroughs beyond anything we ever dreamed possible. |
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| "Purity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.42% of the time. "Purity" is used about 694 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.42% | 690 | 9,626 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.58% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 694 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "purity". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Aznoth-tabor | N/A | Biblical | The ears of purity or contrition |
| Chisloth-tabor | N/A | Biblical | Purity |
| Mitylene | N/A | Biblical | Purity |
| Tabor | N/A | Biblical | Purity |
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Expressions using "purity": Attic purity ♦ colorimetric purity ♦ purity campaign ♦ purity of stock ♦ radiochemical purity ♦ spectral purity. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "purity": Purity-on-tap, purity-this. | |
Ending with "purity": social-purity. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "purity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pastërti (chastity, clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, clearness, immaculacy, wash house), dëlirësi (chastity, innocence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نقاء (lucidity, pureness, rarity), نصاعة (clearness), نظافة (cleanliness, cleanness, going-over, neatness, purgation, tidiness), طهارة (asepsis, candor, candour, chastity, honor, honour, innocence, prudery, pureness, purgation, purification, refinement, righteousness, saintliness, tidiness, virtue), صفاء (clarity, fineness, lucidity, pureness, serenity), صحة (accuracy, authenticity, exactitude, fidelity, fitness, health, legitimacy, nearness, nicety, soundness, trustiness, truth, validity, veracity), خلوص. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чистота (chastity, clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, fairness, whiteness), непорочност (chastity, saintliness), проба на скъпоценен метал, девственост (maidenhood, virginity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 纯净 (Pure), 清" (clean). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nevinnost (innocence, virginity), cudnost (chastity), èistota (cleanliness, cleanness, neatness, tidiness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | renhed (cleanliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zuiverheid (chastity, cleanliness), kuisheid (chaste behaviour, chastity, cleanliness, modesty), helderheid (cleanliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | pureco (cleanliness), ĉasteco (chastity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | reinleiki (cleanliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پاکی (Innocence), پاکدامنی (Chastity, Probity, Sacrosanctity, Virtue), عفت (Honor, Modesty, Virtue), طهارت , صفا (Candor, Candour, Ingenuity, Serenity), صافی (Gloss, Leach, Scumble, Serene, Serenity, Strainer), خلوص (Candor, Candour, Sincerity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puhtaus (cleanliness, cleanness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pureté (pureness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Reinheit (chasteness, chastity, cleanliness, cleanness, clearness, immaculateness, pureness, sweetness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καθαρότητα (clarity, clearness, definition). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תום (completion, innocence, integrity, naivety, perfection, simplicity, wholeness), טו"ר (brightness, chastity, cleanness, virtue), ט"ר" (cleansing, lustration, purification), צחות (clarity, freshness, lucidity, neatness), צחור (clearness, snow white, white, whiteness), קיון (cleanliness, neatness, pureness, sterility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tisztaság (brightness, chastity, clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, Maidenhead, neatness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kemurnian, kejernihan (clarity), keceriaan, kebersihan (cleanliness, cleanness, sanitation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | purezza (chastity, cleanliness, pureness), pulizia (cleaning, cleanliness, cleanness, neatness, sweeping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 粋 (chic, essence, style). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いき (abandonment, breath, chic, court rank diploma, desertion, disposition, essence, freshness, going, heart, level, limits, region, relinquishment, spirit, stage, stet, style, tone), じゅ"けつ (chastity, pure-blooded, pure-bred), じゅ"りょう (gentle, genuine, good and obedient, innocent, meek, net weight, pure, simple and kind), じゅ"いつ (homogeneity, unadorned), じゅ"ど, じゅ"し" (sincerity), じゅ"し"むく (pure), けっぱく (innocence, uprightness), ていけつ (chastity, conclusion, contract, imperial palace, imperial palace gate), "うけつ (nobility, sweat and blood), きいっぽ" (honesty, straight-forwardness), せいじょう (characteristics, clean, disposition, nature, normal, normalcy, normality, political affairs, political situation, pure, the emperor), せいじょうむく (spotlessness), せいじゅ" (innocence, legitimate and illegitimate dynasties, normal and leap), せいいつ (equality, good order), せいすい (clearwater, elegance, rise and fall, unselfishness, ups and downs, vicissitudes, welfare), まる (circle, full, money, perfection, suffix for ship names, zero), びゃくれ" (white lotus), しょうじょう (clean, condition, heaven and earth, heavy drinker, Hinayana, honorable certificate, letter of invitation, market conditions, orangutan, pure, symptoms), むく (to face, to hull, to pare, to peel, to skin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 순수성. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | glennid (chastity, clarity, cleanliness, fineness, flatness, hygiene, sharpness, thoroughness), aaghlennid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | puresa (cleanliness), limpiesa (cleanliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uritypay pureza (chastity, cleanliness, immaculacy, innocence, integrity, limpidity, whiteness). (various references) puritate (immaculacy, innocence, modesty), titlu (caption, deed, degree, dignity, distinction, head, head line, name, prefix, share, style, title, titre), simplitate (artlessness, chastity, greenness, homeliness, modesty, plainness, simple-mindedness, simpleness, simplicity), marcã (badge, hallmark, make, Mark, sign, stamp), limpezime (limpidity, roundness), curãţenie (chastity, clarity, clean, cleaning, cleanliness, cleanness, clearness, fairness, immaculacy, modesty). (various references) чистота (clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, fineness, immaculacy, order, pureness, sereneness), непорочность, беспримесность, проба (analysis, assay, audition, essay, plate-mark, prill, probe, proof, reaction, sample, sampling, specimen, standard, tasting, test, try out, tryout, try-out). (various references) glainead (cleanness). (various references) čistota (whiteness), čistoća (cleanliness, cleanness, limpidity). (various references) pureza (chastity, fineness), limpieza (ablution, clean up, cleaning, cleanliness, cleanness, comb out, dredge, facial, frankness, high tide, immaculacy, integrity, police, scouring, shining, turnout), virtud (ability, chastity, courage, energy, force, merit, morality, righteousness, strength, vice, vigour, virtue). (various references) renhet (chastity, cleanliness, cleanness, fineness, immaculacy, virginity). (various references) ความไร้เ"ียงสา (innocence), ความบริสุทธิ์ (pureness, sincerity). (various references) temizlik (chastity, cleaning, cleanliness, cleanup, combout, house cleaning, hygiene, neatness, purge), saflık (chastity, credulity, gullibility, ingenuousness, innocence, naivete, naivety, refinement, simple-mindedness, trueness), namus (decency, honesty, honor, honour, virginity, virtue), iffet (chastity, modesty, virtue), arılık. (various references) чистота (candor, candour, chastity, clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, clearness, dew, immaculacy, virginity), непорочність (candor, candour, chastity), проба металів (assay), правильність (accuracy, correctness, orthopraxy, propriety, regularity, right, rightness, truthfulness). (various references) sự trong sạch (pureness), sự tinh khiết (immaculacy, immaculateness), sự thuần khiết (pureness), sự sạch, sự nguyên chất sự thanh khiết. (various references) puredd (innocence), purdeb (sincerity), anllygredigaeth (incorruption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | candor, candorem, castimonia, castitas, castitatem, pudicitiae, pudicitiam, sanctimonia, sanctimoniam, sanctitas, sanctitate, sanctitatis. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | ýaozhdå. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 1 Timothy Chapter 5, Verse 2 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | PresbuteraV wV mhteraV newteraV wV adelfaV en pash agneia |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Anus ut matres iuvenculas ut sorores in omni castitate |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | The elder wemen as mothers ye yonger as sisters with all purenes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | To the older women as to mothers, to the younger as to sisters, with a clean heart. |
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| Language | 1 Timothy Chapter 5, Verse 2 |
| Cebuano | ug ang mga babayeng gulanggulang ingon nga daw mga inahan, ug ang mga batan-ong babaye ingon nga daw mga igsoon, sa bug-os nga kaputli. |
| Croatian | starice kao majke, djevojke kao sestre - u svoj èistoæi. |
| Danish | gamle Kvinder som Mødre, unge som Søstre, i al Renhed. |
| Dutch | De oude vrouwen als moeders; de jonge als zusters, in alle reinheid. |
| Finnish | vanhoja naisia niinkuin äitejä, nuorempia niinkuin sisaria, kaikessa puhtaudessa. |
| French | les femmes âgées comme des mères, celles qui sont jeunes comme des soeurs, en toute pureté. |
| German | Die alten Weiber als Mütter, die jungen als Schwestern mit aller Keuschheit. |
| Haitian Creole | ak granmoun fanm yo, tankou si yo te manman ou; ak jenn fi yo, tankou si yo te sè ou, san okenn move lide. |
| Hungarian | Az idõsb asszonyokat mint anyákat; az ifjabbakat mint nõtestvéreidet, teljes tisztasággal. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | dan wanita-wanita tua sebagai ibu. Wanita-wanita muda hendaklah engkau perlakukan sebagai adik, dengan sikap yang murni. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | dan akan perempuan-perempuan tua seperti kepada ibu; dan akan yang muda itu seperti kepada saudara perempuan dengan sehabis-habis suci. |
| Latvian | Vecâkas sievietes - kâ mâtes, jaunâkas - kâ mâsas visâ ðíîstîbâ! |
| Maori | Ko nga ruruhi ano he whaea; ko nga wahine taitamariki ano he tuahine, i runga i nga whakaaro ma katoa. |
| Norwegian | gamle kvinner som mødre, unge som søstre, i all renhet! |
| Portuguese | s mulheres idosas, como a mães; s moças, como a irmãs, com toda a pureza. |
| Rumanian | pe femeile bqtrkne, ca pe niwte mame; pe cele tinere, ca pe niwte surori, cu toatq curqyia. |
| Russian | УФБТЙ", ЛБЛ НБФЕТЕК; НПМП"ЩИ, ЛБЛ УЕУФЕТ, УП ЧУСЛПА ЮЙУФПФПА. |
| Shuar | Nuwa uuntchisha nekas ame Núkua Nútiksamek shiir awajsarta. Nuwa Nátsasha nekas ame umaimia Nútiksam shiir Enentáimjai pénker awajsarta. |
| Swahili | wanawake wazee kama mama yako, na wasichana kama dada zako, kwa usafi wote. |
| Swedish | till äldre kvinnor såsom till mödrar, till yngre kvinnor såsom till systrar, i all renhet. |
| Uma | Tobine to meliu umuru-ra ngkai iko nuponcawa tina-nu. Pai' tobine to mongura ngkai iko nuponcawa tu'ai-nu, pai' pelompehi bona moroli' gau' -nu pai' pekiri-nu. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "purity": impurity. (additional references) | |
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"Purity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Burity, periti, Poritt, Porrit, prioty, Priti, Pritty, prity, prrrit, Prunty, prurity, Puciato, Puiatti, puiy, punity, purit, purite, puritie, puritry, purty, putity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "purity" (pronounced pyuh"rutē) |
| 7 | p y uh" r u t ē | impurity. |
| 6 | -y uh" r u t ē | insecurity, obscurity, security. |
| 5 | -uh" r u t ē | immaturity, maturity, surety. |
| 4 | -r u t ē | alacrity, austerity, authority, barbarity, celebrity, charity, clarity, dexterity, disparity, dissimilarity, familiarity, hilarity, inferiority, insularity, integrity, irregularity, majority, mediocrity, minority, parity, particularity, peculiarity, polarity, popularity, posterity, priority, prosperity, rarity, regularity, seniority, severity, similarity, sincerity, solidarity, sorority, superiority, supermajority, temerity, unfamiliarity, unpopularity, Verity, vulgarity. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, activity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, aggressivity, agility, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, authenticity, availability, banality, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brevity, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, captivity, causality, cavity, centrality, chastity, civility, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, conductivity, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, connectivity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, creativity, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, depravity, deputy, desirability, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, exclusivity, expressivity, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, festivity, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gravity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, inability, inaccessibility, inactivity, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insensitivity, instability, instrumentality, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, levity, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, longevity, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, mendacity, mentality, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, nativity, necessity, negativity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, oversensitivity, palatability, partiality, passivity, paternity, paucity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polity, pomposity, portability, possibility, practicality, predictability, principality, probability, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, profitability, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, proximity, publicity, punctuality, quality, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rationality, reactivity, readability, reality, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, relativity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, selectivity, senility, sensibility, sensitivity, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, sexuality, simplicity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidity, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, subjectivity, suitability, superconductivity, superfluidity, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, venality, veracity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-p-r-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: pity, puri, trip, yurt. | |
-3 letters: pit, piu, pry, pur, put, rip, rut, tip, try, tui, tup, yip, yup. | |
-4 letters: it, pi, ti, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-p-r-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: impurity, punditry, punitory, putridly, pyritous. | |
+3 letters: eurytopic, pituitary, plurality, pterygium, puerility, putridity, supercity, uprightly. | |
+4 letters: capitulary, eruptively, eurypterid, multiparty, outpraying, perpetuity, popularity, profundity, pruriently, pterygiums, putrefying, pyrolusite, suretyship. | |
+5 letters: corruptibly, eurypterids, hyperacuity, importunely, importunity, imprudently, incorruptly, inculpatory, irruptively, multiplayer, opportunity, peculiarity, perspicuity, prematurity, promiscuity, propinquity, pyrolusites, specularity, spiritually, spiritualty, stipulatory, superfluity, superiority, suppository, suretyships. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Derived from 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Bible Trace 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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