Impureness

im·pure  (m-pyr)

adj. im·pur·er, im·pur·est

1. Not pure or clean; contaminated.

2. Not purified by religious rite; unclean.

3. Immoral or sinful: impure thoughts.

4. Mixed with another, usually inferior substance; adulterated.

5. Being a composite of more than one color or mixed with black or white.

6. Deriving from more than one source, style, or convention; eclectic: an impure art form.

---

im·purely adv.

im·pureness n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

impureness - the condition of being impure impurity condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" adulteration, debasement - being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating admixture, alloy - the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something contamination, taint - the state of being contaminated dirtiness - the state of containing dirty impurities putridity - the state of being putrid pollution - undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities