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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Gothicism, adulteration, amorality, backsliding, bad taste, barbarism, barbarousness, black sheep, blemish, bombasticness, cacology, cacophony, carnality, clumsiness, coarseness, contaminant, contamination, corruption, criminality, crudeness, cumbrousness, defectibility, defectiveness, deficiency, defilement, degeneration, delinquency, depravity, dinginess, dirt, dirtiness, dissoluteness, dysphemism, erroneousness, evil, evil nature, fallibility, faultiness, filth, filthiness, foreign body, foreign intruder, foulness, gracelessness, griminess, grossness, grubbiness, harshness, heaviness, ill-balanced sentences, immaturity, immorality, immundity, impairment, imperfection, impropriety, impurities, inaccuracy, inadequacy, inadequateness, incompleteness, inconcinnity, incorrectness, indecency, indecorousness, inelegance, inelegancy, inexactitude, inexactness, infelicity, intruder, lack, lack of finish, lack of polish, lasciviousness, leadenness, lecherousness, lewdness, libidinousness, licentiousness, looseness, lubricity, lust, lustfulness, maculacy, mediocrity, messiness, miriness, misfit, monkey wrench, moral delinquency, mote, muddiness, obscenity, oddball, patchiness, peccability, pollution, pompousness, ponderousness, poor diction, prodigality, promiscuity, promiscuousness, prurience, recidivism, roughness, rudeness, salaciousness, scruffiness, sesquipedalianism, sesquipedality, shortage, shortcoming, sinfulness, sketchiness, slipshod construction, sliver, slovenliness, smut, soiledness, speck, splinter, stiltedness, stone, sulliedness, taintedness, tastelessness, turgidity, unangelicalness, unchasteness, unchastity, uncleanliness, uncleanness, uncouthness, undevelopment, uneuphoniousness, unevenness, ungodliness, ungoodness, ungracefulness, unmorality, unperfectedness, unpureness, unrefinement, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unseemliness, unsoundness, untidiness, unvirtuousness, unwieldiness, vice, viciousness, vileness, vulgarism, vulgarity, want, wantonness, waywardness, weed, wickedness, wrongdoing
Dictionary Results for impurity:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
impurity
    n 1: worthless or dangerous material that should be removed;
         "there were impurities in the water" [syn: impurity,
         dross]
    2: the condition of being impure [syn: impurity, impureness]
       [ant: pureness, purity]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Impurity \Im*pu"ri*ty\, n.; pl. Impurities . [L. impuritas: cf.
   F. impuret['e].]
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   1. The condition or quality of being impure in any sense;
      defilement; foulness; adulteration.
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            Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit.
                                                  --Buckminster.
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   2. That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul
      matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient.
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            Foul impurities reigned among the monkish clergy.
                                                  --Atterbury.
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   3. (Script.) Lack of ceremonial purity; defilement.
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