Cleanliness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cleanliness \Clean"li*ness\ (kl[e^]n"l[i^]*n[e^]s), n. [From
     {Cleanly}.]
     State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress.
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           Cleanliness from head to heel.           --Swift.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cleanliness
       n 1: the habit of keeping free of superficial imperfections [ant:
             {uncleanliness}]
       2: diligence in keeping clean [ant: {uncleanliness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "cleanliness":
     asepsis, blamelessness, blotlessness, chastity, clean slate,
     cleanly habits, cleanness, clear conscience, daintiness,
     fastidiousness, faultlessness, freshness, guiltlessness, honor,
     hospital cleanliness, immaculacy, immaculateness, impeccability,
     innocence, innocency, innocentness, nothing to hide,
     offenselessness, prelapsarian state, pureness, purity,
     reproachlessness, sexual innocence, sinlessness, snowiness,
     spotlessness, stainlessness, sterility, taintlessness, tidiness,
     unblemishedness, unblottedness, uncorruptness, undefiledness,
     unguiltiness, unsoiledness, unspottedness, unstainedness,
     unsulliedness, untaintedness, virtue, virtuousness, whiteness