chastity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of CHASTITY

the quality or state of being morally pure <a saint who is often held up as a model of chastity>

Synonyms chasteness, immaculacy, innocence, modesty, purity

Near Antonyms badness, evil, sinfulness, unrighteousness, wickedness; impropriety, indecency, vulgarity

Antonyms immodesty, impurity, unchasteness, unchastity

abstention from sexual intercourse <vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience>

Synonyms abstinence, chasteness, chastity, continence

Related Words modesty, purity; honor, innocence, virginity, virtue

Near Antonyms debauchery, lechery, licentiousness, venery, wenching, whoring

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