cleanliness

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English cleanly

Proto-Germanic *-in-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-inōną

Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-

Proto-Germanic *-atjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *-assuz

Proto-Germanic *-inassuz

Proto-West Germanic *-nassī

Old English -nes

Middle English -nesse

English -ness

English cleanliness

From cleanly + -ness.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈklɛn.li.nᵻs/

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• (South Asia) IPA^(key): /ˈklɛn.li.nɛs/, /ˈklin-/

Noun

cleanliness (usually uncountable, plural cleanlinesses)

1. The property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene.
   • 1946 May and June, J. Alan Rannie, “The Midland of 35 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 137:

     Both engines and carriages were maintained in admirable cleanliness, and a very high standard of neatness characterised the permanent way and lineside buildings.

2. Ritual purity.

Derived terms

• cleanliness is next to godliness

Related terms

• cleanness

Translations

the property of being cleanly

• Arabic: نَظَافَة f (naẓāfa)
• Armenian: մաքրություն (hy) (makʻrutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: təmizlik
• Belarusian: чыстата́ f (čystatá), чысціня́ f (čyscinjá), чы́стасць f (čýstascʹ)
• Breton: naetadurezh (br) f
• Bulgarian: чистота́ (bg) f (čistotá)
• Catalan: netedat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 清潔 / 清洁 (zh) (qīngjié)

• Czech: čistota (cs) f, čistost f
• Danish: renlighed (da) c
• Esperanto: pureco
• Finnish: puhtaus (fi), siisteys (fi)
• French: propreté (fr) f
• German: Sauberkeit (de) f, Reinlichkeit (de) f
• Gilbertese: iti, itiaki
• Greek: καθαριότητα (el) f (kathariótita)

  Ancient Greek: καθαρότης f (katharótēs)

• Hebrew: ניקיון (he) m (niqaion)
• Hindi: सफ़ाई f (safāī)
• Hungarian: tisztaság (hu)
• Ido: neteso (io)
• Ingrian: siivo
• Irish: glanachar m, glaineacht f
• Italian: pulizia (it) f
• Japanese: 清潔 (ja) (せいけつ, seiketsu)
• Latvian: tīrīgums m
• Macedonian: чистота f (čistota)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: renslighet m or f, reinslighet m or f

  Nynorsk: reinsemd f, reinslegheit f

• Plautdietsch: Reinheit f
• Polish: czystość (pl) f, czystota (pl) f (dated)
• Portuguese: limpeza (pt) f
• Quechua: mayllay
• Russian: чистота́ (ru) f (čistotá), чи́стость (ru) f (čístostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чистоћа f, чистост f

  Latin: čistoća f, čistost (sh) f

• Slovak: čistota (sk) f, čistosť f
• Slovene: čistoča (sl) f
• Spanish: limpieza (es) f
• Swahili: usafi (sw)
• Tamil: தூய்மை (ta) (tūymai)
• Telugu: శుభ్రము (te) (śubhramu)
• Turkish: taharet (tr), temizlik (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: طهارت (tahâret), تمیزلك (temizlik)

• Ukrainian: чистота́ f (čystotá), чи́стість (uk) f (čýstistʹ)