impurity

impurity
n
1. contamination, befoulment, pollution, adulteration, infection; uncleanness, dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, feculence; turbidity, turbidness, muddiness, murkiness, cloudiness.
2. unchasteness, unchastity, defilement, corruption, perversion; debasement, degradation, vitiation, degeneration; baseness, vileness, evilness, evil, sinfulness, wickedness; depravity, depravedness, immorality, amorality, looseness, promiscuity, wantonness; dissoluteness, licentiousness, libertinism, profligacy, profli-gateness, incontinence, incontinency, Pathol. nymphomania, Pathol. satyriasis; lasciviousness, prurience, pruriency, passion, desire, concupiscence, sensuality, sexuality; lust, lustfulness, lewdness, lecherousness, li-bidinousness, Archaic. lickerishness, salaciousness, salacity.
3. obscenity, vulgarity, vulgarness, smuttiness; bawdiness, indecency, impropriety, immodesty, impu-dicity; grossness, crudeness, coarseness, roughness, indelicacy.
4.Often impurities
dirt, filth, grime, smut; spots, stains, soil marks, marks, smudges, smutches, smirches.

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