From Middle English chastite, from Old French chasteté, a semi-learned adaptation of Latin castitas, equivalent to chaste + -ity.
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.
abstaining from sexual activity
- Albanian: dëlirësi (sq) f
- Arabic: عِفَّة f (ʕiffa), طَهَارَة f (ṭahāra)
- Armenian: մաքրաբարոյություն (hy) (makʻrabaroyutʻyun)
- Asturian: castidá f
- Azerbaijani: iffət
- Belarusian: цнатлі́васць f (cnatlívascʹ), няві́ннасць f (njavínnascʹ), беззага́ннасць f (bjezzahánnascʹ)
- Bengali: সতীত্ব (bn) (śotitto)
- 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)
- Ottoman Turkish: حصانت (hasanet)
- 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 (vi), tính giản dị, trinh tiết (vi)
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