chastity

See also: Chastity

English

Borrowed from Old French chasteté, a semi-learned adaptation of Latin castitas.

chastity (countable and uncountable, plural chastities)

The quality of being chaste: the state of abstaining from any sexual activity considered immoral; avoidance of sexual sins.
- 2018, The Epoch Times, Chapter Seven: How the Devil Destroys the Family (Part I), 11 Jul 2018
  In traditional societies in the East and the West, chastity in relations between men and women was seen as a virtue. Today, it’s thought to be quaint and even ridiculous.

abstaining from sexual activity

Arabic: عِفَّة‎ f (ʿiffa), طَهَارَة‎ f (ṭahāra)
Asturian: castidá f
Belarusian: цнатлі́васць f (cnatlívascʹ), няві́ннасць f (njavínnascʹ), беззага́ннасць f (bjezzahánnascʹ)
Bulgarian: целомъ̀дрие (bg) n (celomǎ̀drie), непоро́чност (bg) f (neporóčnost)
Catalan: castedat f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 貞節 (zh), 贞节 (zh) (zhēnjié), 貞潔 (zh), 贞洁 (zh) (zhēnjié), 貞操 (zh), 贞操 (zh) (zhēncāo), 純潔 (zh), 纯洁 (zh) (chúnjié)
Czech: cudnost f
Dutch: zedigheid (nl) f, kuisheid (nl) f
Esperanto: ĉasteco
Finnish: siveys (fi)
French: chasteté (fr) f
Galician: castidade (gl) f
German: Keuschheit (de) f
Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌺𐌽𐌹𐌸𐌰 f (swikniþa)
Greek: αγνεία (el) f (agneía)
Ancient: ἁγνεία f (hagneía)
Hungarian: szüzesség (hu)
Indonesian: kesucian (id), kemurnian (id), kesederhanaan (id)
Italian: castità (it) f
Japanese: 貞潔 (ていけつ, teiketsu), 貞操 (ていそう, teisō), 純潔 (ja) (じゅんけつ, junketsu)

Khmer: ព្រហ្មចារីភាព (prumcaarəy pʰiep)
Korean: 순결 (sun-gyeol)
Macedonian: целому́дрие n (celomúdrie)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kyskhet (no) m, renhet (no) m or f
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: цѣломѫдрие n (cělomǫdrie)
Polish: czystość (pl) f
Portuguese: castidade (pt) f
Russian: целому́дрие (ru) n (celomúdrije), неви́нность (ru) f (nevínnostʹ), непоро́чность (ru) f (neporóčnostʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: целомудреност, чедност, непорочност

Roman: celomudrenost, čednost (sh), neporočnost (sh)
Slovak: cudnosť f
Slovene: vzdržnost f
Spanish: castidad (es) f
Swedish: kyskhet (sv) c, renhet c
Turkish: iffet (tr)
Ukrainian: цнотли́вість (uk) f (cnotlývistʹ), непоро́чність (uk) f (neporóčnistʹ), неви́нність (uk) f (nevýnnistʹ)
Vietnamese: bình dị, tính giản dị, trinh tiết (vi)

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