chastity

See also: Chastity

English

Etymology

From Middle English chastite, from Old French chasteté, a semi-learned adaptation of Latin castitas.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃastɪti/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃæstɪti/, [ˈt͡ʃæstɪɾi]
(obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃeɪstɪti/
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Noun

chastity (countable and uncountable, plural chastities)

The quality of being chaste: the state of abstaining from any sexual activity considered immoral; avoidance of sexual sins.
- 2010, The Guardian, Celibacy: whose bright idea was that?, 29 May 2010
  In Catholic doctrine, the virtue of chastity is taken to be the principal foil to everyone's favourite deadly sin, lust.

Synonyms

chasteness

Antonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

chaste

Translations

abstaining from sexual activity

Albanian: dëlirësi (sq) f
Arabic: عِفَّة‎ f (ʿiffa), طَهَارَة‎ f (ṭahāra)
Armenian: մաքրաբարոյություն (hy) (makʿrabaroyutʿyun)
Asturian: castidá f
Azerbaijani: iffət
Belarusian: цнатлі́васць f (cnatlívascʹ), няві́ннасць f (njavínnascʹ), беззага́ннасць f (bjezzahánnascʹ)
Bengali: সতীত্ব (sôtītẇ)
Bulgarian: целомъ́дрие (bg) n (celomǎ́drie), непоро́чност (bg) f (neporóčnost)
Catalan: castedat (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 貞節／贞节 (zh) (zhēnjié), 貞潔／贞洁 (zh) (zhēnjié), 貞操／贞操 (zh) (zhēncāo), 純潔／纯洁 (zh) (chúnjié)
Czech: cudnost f
Danish: kyskhed c
Dutch: zedigheid (nl) f, kuisheid (nl) f
Esperanto: ĉasteco
Estonian: vooruslikkus
Finnish: siveys (fi)
French: chasteté (fr) f
Galician: castidade (gl) f
Georgian: უბიწოება (ubic̣oeba)
German: Keuschheit (de) f
Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌺𐌽𐌹𐌸𐌰 f (swikniþa)
Greek: αγνεία (el) f (agneía), αγνότητα (el) f (agnótita)
Ancient: ἁγνεία f (hagneía)
Hindi: शुचिता (hi) f (śucitā), सतीत्व (hi) m (satītva), शुद्धता (hi) f (śuddhatā)
Hungarian: szüzesség (hu)
Indonesian: kesucian (id), kemurnian (id), kesederhanaan (id)
Italian: castità (it) f
Japanese: 貞潔 (ja) (ていけつ, teiketsu), 貞操 (ja) (ていそう, teisō), 純潔 (ja) (じゅんけつ, junketsu)
Kazakh: пәктік (päktık)
Khmer: ព្រហ្មចារិភាព (prummĕəʼcaarephiəp)
Korean: 순결(純潔) (sun'gyeol), 정조(貞操) (ko) (jeongjo), 정결(貞潔) (ko) (jeonggyeol)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: îfet (ku)
Kyrgyz: пакизалык (ky) (pakizalık), тазалык (ky) (tazalık), кыздык (ky) (kızdık)
Lao: ພົມມະຈັນ (phom ma chan)
Latin: castitās f, pudīcitia f
Latvian: šķīstība f
Lithuanian: dorovingumas m
Macedonian: чедност f (čednost)
Maltese: kastità f
Maori: takakautanga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kyskhet (no) m, renhet (no) m or f

Nynorsk: kyskleik m
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: цѣломѫдриѥ n (cělomǫdrije)
Pashto: عفت‎ (ps) m ('efat)
Persian: عفت‎ (fa) ('effat), پاکدامنی‎ (fa) (pâkdâmani)
Polish: czystość (pl) f
Portuguese: castidade (pt) f
Romanian: castitate (ro) f
Russian: целому́дрие (ru) n (celomúdrije), неви́нность (ru) f (nevínnostʹ), непоро́чность (ru) f (neporóčnostʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: целомудреност f, че̏дно̄ст f, не̏порочно̄ст f

Roman: celomudrenost f, čȅdnōst (sh) f, nȅporočnōst (sh) f
Slovak: cudnosť f
Slovene: vzdržnost f
Spanish: castidad (es) f
Swedish: kyskhet (sv) c, renhet (sv) c
Tajik: иффат (iffat), покдоманӣ (pokdomanī)
Thai: พรหมจรรย์ (prom-má-jan), ความบริสุทธิ์ (th) (kwaam-bɔɔ-rí-sùt)
Turkish: iffet (tr)
Ukrainian: цнотли́вість (uk) f (cnotlývistʹ), непоро́чність (uk) f (neporóčnistʹ), неви́нність (uk) f (nevýnnistʹ)
Urdu: عِفَّت‎ f ('iffat)
Uyghur: ئىپپەت‎ (ippet)
Uzbek: iffat (uz)
Vietnamese: bình dị, tính giản dị, trinh tiết (vi)

References

chastity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

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