chastity
chastity Lexical Profile
chastity Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The state or practice of refraining from extramarital, or from all, sexual intercourse.
"Monks in the medieval monastery took strict vows of poverty, obedience, and chastity."
Purity, simplicity, or restraint in artistic style, taste, or expression; freedom from excessive ornamentation.
"The critic praised the neoclassical façade for its architectural chastity and balanced proportions."
Word Nuance & Usage
While often used interchangeably with 'celibacy', 'chastity' traditionally encompasses faithful sexual conduct within marriage as well as abstinence outside of it, whereas 'celibacy' strictly denotes the state of remaining unmarried and completely abstinent.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Old French 'chastete', from Latin 'castitas' ('purity, moral cleanness'), derived from the adjective 'castus' ('pure, unblemished, cut off from faults').