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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | colorlessness |
| Synonyms: | hoariness, paleness, pallidity |
| Antonyms: | blackness |
| Concept: | Whiteness. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; specific light |
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-nouns
whiteness; argent. albification, etiolation; lactescence., snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster; albata, eburin, German silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe, ceruse, pearl white; white lead, carbonate of lead.
-verbs
be white., render white; whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash, silver.
-adjectives
white; milk-white, snow-white; snowy; niveous, candid, chalky; hoar, hoary; silvery; argent, argentine; canescent, cretaceous, lactescent., whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond; blanched; high in tone, light., white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as silver; like ivory.
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| Antonyms: | blackness |
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| Main Entry: | pallor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | paleness |
| Synonyms: | achromatic, bloodlessness, cadaverousness, colorlessness, etiolation, pallidity, pastiness, sallowness, wanness, whiteness |
| Main Entry: | paleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pallor |
| Synonyms: | anemia, colorlessness, lividness, pallidness, sickness, whiteness |
| Main Entry: | purity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the state of being pure |
| Synonyms: | cleanliness, cleanness, immaculacy, immaculateness, pureness, stainlessness, unsulliedness, untaintedness, whiteness |
| Main Entry: | pureness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | purity |
| Synonyms: | clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, immaculacy, immaculateness, stainlessness, taintlessness, unsulliedness, untaintedness, whiteness |
| Main Entry: | taintlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | purity |
| Synonyms: | clarity, cleanliness, cleanness, immaculacy, immaculateness, pureness, stainlessness, unsulliedness, untaintedness, whiteness |
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| Main Entry: | purity |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2, noun3, noun |
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artistic, attic, chaste, ciceronian, classical, continent, correct, decent, decorous, delicate, easy, elegant, euphemistic, euphonious, felicitous, graceful, happy, honest, intemerate, jannock, meracious, modest, natural, neat, neatly expressed, neatly put, numerose, platonic, polished, pristine, pure, readable, rhythmical, saxon, smectic, tripping, unaffected, undefiled, unlabored, virtuous, well put
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| Concept: | Purity. |
| Category: | 4. Moral practice |
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-nouns
purity; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity, pucelage, virginity., vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus; Lucretia, Diana; prude.
-adjectives
pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous; virginibus puerisque; chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic.
-phrases
"as chaste as unsunn'd snow" [Cymbeline]; "a soul as white as heaven" [Beaumonth & Fl.]; "'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity" [Milton]; "to the
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| Antonyms: | impurity |
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