VIRGINITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does virginity mean? 

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

1. the condition or quality of being a virgin

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIRGINITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The condition or quality of being a virgin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Attribute:

chaste (morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse))

Derivation:

virgin (in a state of sexual virginity)

 Context examples 

Her penetrative virginity exalted and disguised his own emotions, elevating his thoughts to a star-cool chastity, and he would have been startled to learn that there was that shining out of his eyes, like warm waves, that flowed through her and kindled a kindred warmth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)