Crossword clues for cleanliness
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cleanliness \Clean"li*ness\ (kl[e^]n"l[i^]*n[e^]s), n. [From Cleanly.] State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress.
Cleanliness from head to heel.
--Swift.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from cleanly + -ness.\n\nCleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
[John Wesley, Sermon "On Dress," c.1791]
Wiktionary
n. the property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene
WordNet
n. the habit of keeping free of superficial imperfections [ant: uncleanliness]
diligence in keeping clean [ant: uncleanliness]
Wikipedia
Cleanliness is both the abstract state of being clean and free from dirt, and the process of achieving and maintaining that state.
Cleanliness may be wed with a moral quality, as indicated by the aphorism "cleanliness is next to godliness", and may be regarded as contributing to other ideals such as ' health' and ' beauty'.
In emphasizing an ongoing procedure or set of habits for the purpose of maintenance and prevention, the concept of cleanliness differs from purity, which is a physical, moral, or ritual state of freedom from pollutants. Whereas purity is usually a quality of an individual or substance, cleanliness has a social dimension, or implies a system of interactions. "Cleanliness," observed Jacob Burckhardt, "is indispensable to our modern notion of social perfection." A household or workplace may be said to exhibit cleanliness, but not ordinarily purity; cleanliness also would be a characteristic of the people who maintain cleanness or prevent dirtying.
On a practical level, cleanliness is thus related to hygiene and disease prevention. Washing is one way of achieving physical cleanliness, usually with water and often some kind of soap or detergent. Procedures of cleanliness are of utmost importance in many forms of manufacturing.
As an assertion of moral superiority or respectability, cleanliness has played a role in establishing cultural values in relation to social class, humanitarianism, and cultural imperialism.
Cleanliness is linked with proper hygiene. A person who is said to be clean usually depicts cleanliness.
Usage examples of "cleanliness".
Who can sense the spiritual uncleanness of adultery except one who is in the cleanliness of chastity?
The treatment of this disease should consist in rest for the hip-joint, cleanliness of the person and plenty of fresh air and light, a nutritious diet and the use of tonics and sustaining alterative, or blood-cleansing medicines.
To this cause perhaps, united to their frequent bathing and extreme cleanliness, is ascribable, in a great measure, the marvellous purity and smoothness of skin exhibited by the natives in general.
We must have cleanliness, asepsis if possible, and an orderly technique.
Many persons think because they daily bathe the face, neck, and hands, dress the hair becomingly and remove the dirt from their clothing that the height of cleanliness has been reached.
I tried to satisfy my wishes, she opposed some resistance, but a double crown of six francs made her obedient, and finding that her only fault was a complete absence of cleanliness, I began to wash her with my own hands.
I been able to give an idea of the extreme antiquity, the perfect cleanliness, nor the vibrating song of the cicalas that seems to have been stored away within it, in its parched-up fibres, during hundreds of summers.
Bettina, seated on my bed, carried too far her love for cleanliness, and her curiosity caused me such intense voluptuousness that the feeling did not stop until it could be carried no further.
But this visible darkness did not prevent me from remarking that the countess was wrapped up in an old tattered gown, and that her chemise did not shine by its cleanliness.
THE CAUSES of stomatitis, in nursing infants, are unhealthy milk, or effete matter, which, for lack of proper care and cleanliness, accumulates upon the nipple.
I had just entered life, and I had no knowledge of any other place but the house in which I had been born, in which I had been brought up, and in which I had always seen cleanliness and honest comfort.
Heather was awed by the cleanliness and flawless routine maintained by Hatti and Aunt Ruth.
They dragged themselves up out of the karez and sprawled on the earth, drawing great breaths of the fresh air, which was sweet, with the wild cleanliness of the sand, into their lungs.
He was a man of singularly penurious habits, allowing himself to be in want of necessary food, and neglecting cleanliness.
Then I was painfully sensible of my poverty because it compelled me to let Elsje live in the midst of these often unclean and unmannerly people, in the close steamer atmosphere surrounded by sick people, in the sleeping quarters separated only by curtains, with the primitive washing accommodations and the lack of everything that I would so gladly have given her beauty, cleanliness, comfort.