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Definition: Cleanliness |
CleanlinessNoun1. The habit of keeping free of superficial imperfections. 2. Diligence in keeping clean. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cleanliness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Note: Cleanliness \Clean"li*ness\, noun. [From Cleanly.]. (references) |
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Metallurgy | The degree to which the metal is free from non-metallic matter. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Purposes of cleanliness are health, beauty, absence of bad smell, other comfort, avoidance of shame, and for avoiding spreading dirt and germs to oneself and other people, places or objects. In the case of windows the purpose is also transparency.
Washing is often done with soap, detergent, etc., often a different kind for different applications.
People usually wash themselves. Little children and sick and disabled people may be washed by someone else. For fun lovers etc. may wash each other. Often a shower is used, and/or a bathtub. More frequent is washing of just the hands, e.g. before and after preparing food and eating, after using the toilet, after handling something dirty, etc.
See also Hygiene and Ritual purification.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cleanliness."
| Antonym: uncleanliness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cleanness | Noun: cleanness, cleanliness; Adjective: purity; cleaning; Verb: purification, defecation; Verb: purgation, lustration; detersion, abstersion; epuration, mundation; ablution, lavation, colature; disinfection; Verb: drainage, sewerage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I mean, how come we can't fight the demon of cleanliness or the demon of housekeeping, or even that really big bald guy, Mr. Clean (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) | |
Lyrics | And cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty just like me (Zero; performing artist: The smashing pumpkins) Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness (Zero; performing artist: The smashing pumpkins) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Health: Your Cleanliness (1953) Cleanliness Brings Health (1945) | |
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 | Scientists monitor the gravel composition and levels of dissolved oxygen in the creek. The process requires the insertion of plastic pipes into the streambed at a depth where fish eggs are found. The scientists use an oxygen probe to measure the levels of dissolved oxygen and measure the cleanliness of the gravel to determine suitability of the riverbed as spawning habitat. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | A scientist prepares to do sampling for gravel cleanliness and dissolved oxygen levels. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | [Sister Cecilia Ruggiero emphasizes the need for cleanliness to student midwives]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Russian poster: Cleanliness, sunlight, and fresh air will preserve the health of the infant]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Eat nutritious food. Find fun in exercise. Sleep and relaxation. Cleanliness. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | [Deola Lange Cyrus instructs student nurse-midwives in cleanliness.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Cleanliness is next to godliness. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Fight disease with cleanliness. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Form the habit of cleanliness to keep the environment sanitary. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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John Wesley | Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Currently, pasteurization is applied to foods (like milk) that already meet a defined cleanliness standard, and is applied at a dose that gives a standard defined effect. (references) | |
Business | For example, fast-food franchises are subject to zoning laws and to regulations governing cleanliness, fire codes, and emergency exits. (references) | |
Economic History | Australia | The State Government is seeking to combine innovative agricultural and manufacturing techniques with Tasmania's natural beauty and environmental cleanliness. (references) |
Australia | AQIS has strict regulations that are rigidly enforced on all consignments, including a cleanliness certificate to verify that the machinery has been fully cleaned. (references) | |
Botswana | Minimum working conditions required on work premises include: cleanliness of the premises, adequate ventilation and sanitation, sufficient lighting and the provision of safety precautions. (references) | |
Human Rights | Kuwait | Prison conditions, including conditions for those held for security offenses, meet or exceed international standards in terms of food, access to basic health care, scheduled family visits, cleanliness, and opportunities for work and exercise. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined. The man who taketh a steam bath He loseth all the skin he hath, And, for he's boiled a brilliant red, Thinketh to cleanliness he's wed, Forgetting that his lungs he's soiling With dirty vapors of the boiling. Richard Gwow |
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| "Cleanliness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.30% of the time. "Cleanliness" is used about 287 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.3% | 285 | 17,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 287 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cleanliness": make a fetish of cleanliness ♦ mania for cleanliness. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cleanliness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rregull (cosmos, discipline, institution, law, method, neatness, nomocracy, order, orderliness, precept, procedure, regularity, regulation, right, rights, rule, shape, tidiness), pastërti (chastity, clarity, cleanness, clearness, immaculacy, purity, wash house). (various references) | |
Arabic | نظافة (cleanness, going-over, neatness, purgation, purity, tidiness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чистота (chastity, clarity, cleanness, fairness, purity, whiteness), чистоплътност. (various references) | |
Chinese | 洁净 (immaculate, kosher). (various references) | |
Czech | èistota (cleanness, neatness, purity, tidiness). (various references) | |
Danish | renhed (purity). (various references) | |
Dutch | zuiverheid (chastity, purity), kuisheid (chaste behaviour, chastity, modesty, purity), helderheid (purity). (various references) | |
Esperanto | pureco (purity). (various references) | |
Faeroese | reinleiki (purity). (various references) | |
Finnish | puhtausaste, puhtaus (cleanness, purity). (various references) | |
French | propreté (cleanness). (various references) | |
German | sauberkeit (accuracy, cleanness, crispness, neatness, purity, spruceness, tidiness), reinlichkeit (clearness, neatness, purity, tidiness). (various references) | |
Greek | καθαριότησ (neatness), καθαριότητα (cleanness, neatness), πάστρα (neatness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קיון (neatness, pureness, purity, sterility). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rendesség (neatness, tidiness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kebersihan (cleanness, purity, sanitation). (various references) | |
Italian | pulizia (cleaning, cleanness, neatness, purity, sweeping). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "癖 (fastidiousness, love of cleanliness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | けっぺき (fastidiousness, love of cleanliness). (various references) | |
Korean | 청결. (various references) | |
Manx | glennid (chastity, clarity, fineness, flatness, hygiene, purity, sharpness, thoroughness). (various references) | |
Papiamen | puresa (purity), limpiesa (purity). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eanlinessclay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | limpeza (cleanness, cleansing, cleanup, comb-out, mop-up, neatness, purity, rubdown, scour, washing, wipe). (various references) | |
Romanian | curãţenie (chastity, clarity, clean, cleaning, cleanness, clearness, fairness, immaculacy, modesty, purity). (various references) | |
Russian | чистота (clarity, cleanness, fineness, immaculacy, order, pureness, purity, sereneness), опрятность (tidiness, titivation). (various references) | |
Scottish | sgean. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | čistoća (cleanness, limpidity, purity). (various references) | |
Spanish | limpieza (ablution, clean up, cleaning, cleanness, comb out, dredge, facial, frankness, high tide, immaculacy, integrity, police, purity, scouring, shining, turnout). (various references) | |
Swedish | renhet (chastity, cleanness, fineness, immaculacy, purity, virginity). (various references) | |
Turkish | temizlik (chastity, cleaning, cleanup, combout, house cleaning, hygiene, neatness, purge, purity). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tдmislik (purify), pдkizelik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чистота (candor, candour, chastity, clarity, cleanness, clearness, dew, immaculacy, purity, virginity), охайність (neatness, tidiness, titivation). (various references) | |
Welsh | glanweithdra. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cleanliness": cleanlinesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cleanliness": uncleanliness. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cleanliness": uncleanlinesses. (additional references) | |
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"Cleanliness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cleaniess, cleaniless, cleansiness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cleanliness" (pronounced kle"nlēnus) |
| 6 | -n l ē n u s | loneliness, slovenliness. |
| 5 | -l ē n u s | deadliness, friendliness, ghastliness, holiness, liveliness, orderliness, silliness, timeliness, ugliness, worldliness. |
| 4 | -ē n u s | airworthiness, arbitrariness, bagginess, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, contrariness, coziness, craziness, creditworthiness, creepiness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, edginess, emptiness, frothiness, funniness, hairiness, happiness, laziness, lousiness, nastiness, nosiness, pettiness, queasiness, raciness, readiness, riskiness, roominess, rowdiness, scantiness, shakiness, sleepiness, sloppiness, solitariness, steadiness, stinginess, sturdiness, tardiness, tastiness, trustworthiness, uneasiness, unhappiness, unwieldiness, wariness, weariness, wimpiness, worthiness. |
| 3 | -n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, appropriateness, assertiveness, astuteness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, bluntness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, Conus, coolness, correctness, creativeness, crispness, crookedness, cuteness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, earnestness, effectiveness, elusiveness, evenness, exogenous, eyewitness, faintness, fairness, farsightedness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, fullness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, gluttonous, goodness, governess, graciousness, greatness, greenness, grimness, handedness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, largeness, lateness, lawlessness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, likeness, luminous, madness, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nearsightedness, neatness, nervousness, newness, niceness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, playfulness, poisonous, politeness, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, quickness, quietness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, rightness, robustness, roughness, rudeness, ruinous, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, separateness, seriousness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadfastness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stoutness, strangeness, stubbornness, suddenness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tartness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, truthfulness, unconsciousness, unfairness, uniqueness, unpleasantness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, wryness. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-l-n-n-s-s" | |
-2 letters: alienness, cleanness, saliences, sensillae. | |
-3 letters: ainsells, cleanses, incenses, laceless, laciness, leanness, licenses, lineless, nacelles, niceness, salience, sanicles, sensilla, silences. | |
-4 letters: ainsell, canines, cannels, caseins, cleanse, encases, encinal, encinas, enisles, enlaces, ensiles, iceless, illness, incases, incense, inlaces, innless, license, nacelle, nancies, nellies, salines, sallies, sanicle, scalene, scaleni, scillas, seances, selenic, senecas, seniles, siennas, silanes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-l-l-n-n-s-s" | |
+2 letters: cleanlinesses, uncleanliness. | |
+3 letters: colonialnesses, penicillinases. | |
+4 letters: uncleanlinesses, unclimbableness. | |
+5 letters: inconsolableness, inexplicableness, intellectualness. | |
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