chastity

Other forms of chastity

plural

chastities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chastity

What does chastity mean?

chastity means "abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chastity?

chastity has 3 syllables: chas-ti-ty. The stress falls on "chas". In IPA it is /ˈtʃæstəti/.

What is another word for chastity?

Close synonyms include celibacy, sexual abstention, virtue, sexual morality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chastity a common word?

chastity is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.