Synonyms for holiness
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Noun
1. Sanctity
sanctity, righteousness, sacredness, piety, godliness, purity, devotion, religiousness, devoutness, sanctitude
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Definitions
- n. 1
The state or condition of being holy.
Related words
- Other spellings
- holyness
Forms
- Plural
- holinesses → sanctities, righteousnesses, sacrednesses, pieties…
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Holiness is the highest, sinless perfection of any spirit, whether divine or human, tho often used for purity or for consecration.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- righteousness I will I could bottle your righteousness.
- piety Piety is the beginning of wisdom.
- sanctity The sanctity of this place has been fouled.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| holiness | rising | |
| righteousness | rising | |
| piety | rising | |
| sanctity | steady | |
| sacredness | rising | |
| divineness | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- piety3
- 6 letters
- purity3
- 8 letters
- devotion3, sanctity3
- 9 letters
- godliness, sacrality
- 10 letters
- sacredness3, devoutness, sanctitude, divineness
- 13 letters
- righteousness3, religiousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (piety3 = 3 syllables).