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SANCTITY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does sanctity mean?

• SANCTITY (noun)
The noun SANCTITY has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being holy

Familiarity information: SANCTITY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SANCTITY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The quality of being holy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

holiness; sanctitude; sanctity

Hypernyms ("sanctity" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

holy (belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power)

unhallowed; unholy (not hallowed or consecrated)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sanctity"):

sacredness (the quality of being sacred)

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