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English
Etymology
cleanly + -ness
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈklɛn.li.nɪs/, /ˈklɛn.li.nəs/
Noun
cleanliness (usually uncountable, plural cleanlinesses)
- The property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene.
1946 May and June, J. Alan Rannie, “The Midland of 35 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 137:Both engines and carriages were maintained in admirable cleanliness, and a very high standard of neatness characterised the permanent way and lineside buildings.
- Ritual purity.
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Translations
the property of being cleanly
- Arabic: نَظَافَة f (naẓāfa)
- Armenian: մաքրություն (hy) (makʻrutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: təmizlik
- Belarusian: чыстата́ f (čystatá), чысціня́ f (čyscinjá), чы́стасць f (čýstascʹ)
- Breton: naetadurezh (br) f
- Bulgarian: чистота́ (bg) f (čistotá)
- Catalan: netedat (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 清潔／清洁 (zh) (qīngjié)
- Czech: čistota (cs) f, čistost f
- Danish: renlighed (da) c
- Esperanto: pureco
- Finnish: puhtaus (fi), siisteys (fi)
- French: propreté (fr) f
- German: Sauberkeit (de) f, Reinlichkeit (de) f
- Hebrew: ניקיון m (niqaion)
- Hindi: सफ़ाई f (safāī)
- Hungarian: tisztaság (hu)
- Ido: neteso (io)
- Ingrian: siivo
- Italian: pulizia (it) f
- Japanese: 清潔 (ja) (せいけつ, seiketsu)
- Latvian: tīrīgums m
- Macedonian: чистота f (čistota)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: renslighet m or f, reinslighet m or f
- Nynorsk: reinsemd f, reinslegheit f
- Plautdietsch: Reinheit f
- Polish: czystość (pl) f, czystota (pl) f (dated)
- Portuguese: limpeza (pt) f
- Quechua: mayllay
- Russian: чистота́ (ru) f (čistotá), чи́стость (ru) f (čístostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: чистоћа f, чистост f
- Roman: čistoća f, čistost (sh) f
- Slovak: čistota (sk) f, čistosť f
- Slovene: čistoča (sl) f
- Spanish: limpieza (es) f
- Swahili: usafi (sw)
- Telugu: శుభ్రము (te) (śubhramu)
- Ukrainian: чистота́ f (čystotá), чи́стість (uk) f (čýstistʹ)
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