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)

1. 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

• inchastity, unchastity
• incontinence, incontinency
• lust
• promiscuity

Derived terms

• Chastity
• chastity belt
• chastity cage
• chastity ring

Related terms

• chaste

Translations

abstaining from sexual activity

• Albanian: dëlirësi (sq) f
• Arabic: عِفَّة‎ f (ʕiffa), طَهَارَة‎ f (ṭahāra)
• Armenian: մաքրաբարոյություն (hy) (makʿrabaroyutʿyun)
• Asturian: castidá f
• Azerbaijani: iffət
• Belarusian: цнатлі́васць f (cnatlívascʹ), няві́ннасць f (njavínnascʹ), беззага́ннасць f (bjezzahánnascʹ)
• Bengali: সতীত্ব (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)

• 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)

References

• “chastity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• yachtist