chastity
UK/ˈt͡ʃastɪti/US/ˈt͡ʃæstɪti/
chastity noun: the quality of being chaste: the state of abstaining from any sexual activity considered immoral; avoidance of sexual sins.
Noun
chastity (countable and uncountable, plural chastities)
Proper noun capitalized: Chastity
Chastity
- A female given name from English from the virtue chastity.
- Since she was saddled with that awful name, Chastity Bono has given her parents much grief over it. "It helps to get into a show or something, but most of the time it's a pain," she told McCall's. The girl blames mama Cher who was inspired by a movie.1990, Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso, The Real Frank Zappa Book, Simon&Schuster, →ISBN, page 247
chastity meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
chastity in Hindi
- abstaining from sexual activity
- शुचिता śucitā, सतीत्व satītva, शुद्धता śuddhatā
chastity in Tamil
- கற்பு
chastity in Urdu
- abstaining from sexual activity
- عِفَّت 'iffat
chastity in Bengali
- abstaining from sexual activity
- সতীত্ব śotitto
More languagesFewer languages
- chastity in Malayalam
- ചാരിത്ര്യം, പാതിവ്രത്യം, ബ്രഹ്മചര്യം, പരിശുദ്ധി
- chastity in Kannada
- ಪಾತಿವ್ರತ್ಯ, ಪರಿಶುದ್ಧತೆ, ಮಿತಭೋಗಿತ್ವ
- chastity in Odia
- ସତୀତ୍ୱ
- chastity in Pashto
- عفت 'efat
- chastity in Arabic
- عِفَّة ʕiffa, طَهَارَة ṭahāra
- chastity in Indonesian
- kesucian, kemurnian, kesederhanaan
- chastity in Persian
- عفت 'effat, پاکدامنی pâkdâmani
- chastity in Thai
- พรหมจรรย์ prom-má-jan, ความบริสุทธิ์ kwaam-bɔɔ-rí-sùt
- chastity in Vietnamese
- bình dị, tính giản dị, trinh tiết
Examples of chastity in a sentence
- I'mma make a chastity belt out of a robotic shark with big pointy teefies.
- The beautiful boy has flowing or richly textured hyacinthine hair, the only luxuriance in this chastity.
- We regard her chastity as essential to her maternal rectitude.
Synonyms of chastity
Antonyms
Forms of chastity
| plural | chastities |
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Origin of chastity
From Middle English chastite, from Old French chasteté, a semi-learned adaptation of Latin castitas, equivalent to chaste + -ity.
Words formed from chastity
Phrases with chastity
Questions about chastity
- What does chastity mean?
- Chastity means the quality of being chaste: the state of abstaining from any sexual activity considered immoral; avoidance of sexual sins.
- What is chastity in Hindi?
- Chastity in Hindi is शुचिता (śucitā), सतीत्व (satītva), शुद्धता (śuddhatā). See Chastity meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is chastity?
- Chastity can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce chastity?
- Chastity is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃastɪti/ (UK).
- What is the plural of chastity?
- The plural of chastity is chastities.
Words near chastity in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: chastity (page history and authors); Chastity (page history and authors); chastity (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chastity (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chastity (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chastity (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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