CLEANNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cleanness mean? 

• CLEANNESS (noun)
  The noun CLEANNESS has 2 senses:

1. the state of being clean; without dirt or other impurities

2. without moral defects

  Familiarity information: CLEANNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLEANNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being clean; without dirt or other impurities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

sanitary condition (the state of sanitation (clean or dirty))

Attribute:

clean (free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits)

dirty; soiled; unclean (soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime)

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

immaculateness; spotlessness (the state of being spotlessly clean)

Antonym:

dirtiness (the state of being unsanitary)

Derivation:

clean (free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits)

clean (not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination)

clean (free from impurities)

clean (free from sepsis or infection)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Without moral defects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

innocence; pureness; purity; sinlessness; whiteness (the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil)

Derivation:

clean (exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play)

clean (morally pure)

 Context examples 

Her cleanness and purity had reacted upon him, and he felt in his being a crying need to be clean.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And now, in her, he conceived purity to be the superlative of goodness and of cleanness, the sum of which constituted eternal life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She wanted to cry out at the recklessness of the thought, and in vain she appraised her own cleanness and culture and balanced all that she was against what he was not.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She was clean, and her cleanness revolted; but she was woman, and she was just beginning to learn the paradox of woman.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)