purity

Other forms of purity

plural

purities·

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 purity

What does purity mean?

purity means "being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in purity?

purity has 3 syllables: pur-i-ty. The stress falls on "pur". In IPA it is /ˈpjʊɹəti/.

What is another word for purity?

Close synonyms include pureness, pureness, sinlessness, innocence, whiteness. 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.

What is the opposite of purity?

The recorded antonyms are impurity.

Is purity a common word?

purity 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.

What rhymes with purity?

1 word rhymes with purity. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.