chastity

See also: Chastity

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French chasteté, a semi-learned adaptation of Latin castitas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃæstɪti/, [ˈtʃæstɪɾi]

• Audio (CA):

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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.
   • 2018, The Epoch Times, Chapter Seven: How the Devil Destroys the Family (Part I), 11 Jul 2018

     In traditional societies in the East and the West, chastity in relations between men and women was seen as a virtue. Today, it’s thought to be quaint and even ridiculous.

Antonyms

• inchastity, unchastity
• lust
• promiscuity

Derived terms

• chastity belt

Related terms

• chaste

Translations

abstaining from sexual activity

• Arabic: عِفَّة f (ʕiffa), طَهَارَة f (ṭahāra)
• Asturian: castidá f
• Belarusian: цнатлі́васць f (cnatlívascʹ), няві́ннасць f (njavínnascʹ), беззага́ннасць f (bjezzahánnascʹ)
• Bulgarian: целомъ̀дрие (bg) n (celomǎ̀drie), непоро́чност (bg) f (neporóčnost)
• Catalan: castedat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貞節／贞节 (zh) (zhēnjié), 贞节 (zh) (zhēnjié), 貞潔／贞洁 (zh) (zhēnjié), 贞洁 (zh) (zhēnjié), 貞操／贞操 (zh) (zhēncāo), 贞操 (zh) (zhēncāo), 純潔／纯洁 (zh) (chúnjié), 纯洁 (zh) (chúnjié)

• Czech: cudnost f
• Dutch: zedigheid (nl) f, kuisheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: ĉasteco
• Finnish: siveys (fi)
• French: chasteté (fr) f
• Galician: castidade (gl) f
• German: Keuschheit (de) f
• Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌺𐌽𐌹𐌸𐌰 f (swikniþa)
• Greek: αγνεία (el) f (agneía)

  Ancient:

• Hungarian: szüzesség (hu)
• Indonesian: kesucian (id), kemurnian (id), kesederhanaan (id)
• Italian: castità (it) f
• Japanese: 貞潔 (ていけつ, teiketsu), 貞操 (ていそう, teisō), 純潔 (ja) (じゅんけつ, junketsu)
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• Khmer: ព្រហ្មចារីភាព (prumcaarəy pʰiep)
• Korean: 순결 (sun'gyeol)
• Macedonian: целому́дрие n (celomúdrie)
• Maltese: kastità f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kyskhet (no) m, renhet (no) m or f

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: цѣломѫдрие n (cělomǫdrije)

• Polish: czystość (pl) f
• Portuguese: castidade (pt) f
• Russian: целому́дрие (ru) n (celomúdrije), неви́нность (ru) f (nevínnostʹ), непоро́чность (ru) f (neporóčnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: целомудреност, чедност, непорочност

  Roman: celomudrenost, čednost (sh), neporočnost (sh)

• Slovak: cudnosť f
• Slovene: vzdržnost f
• Spanish: castidad (es) f
• Swedish: kyskhet (sv) c, renhet c
• Turkish: iffet (tr)
• Ukrainian: цнотли́вість (uk) f (cnotlývistʹ), непоро́чність (uk) f (neporóčnistʹ), неви́нність (uk) f (nevýnnistʹ)
• Vietnamese: bình dị, tính giản dị, trinh tiết (vi)

References

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