impurity
About 2.48 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.
Even animals in the Jewish system cause impurity only when they are dead.
- noun A component or additive that renders something else impure.
The impurities in the iron ore made extraction of the iron very difficult.
- noun A state of immorality or sin; especially the weakness of the flesh: inchastity.
With his cheating, lying and stealing, he epitomised the impurity of humanity.
Similar words
impureness dross contaminant fineness purity dirt dockage contaminating adulteration taint
Often followed by
of in and atoms concentration is atom content scattering
Word family
impurities
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