Purity is the absence of impurity or contaminants in a substance. The term also applies to the absence of vice in human character.
Purity may also refer to:
- Purity (gas), an indication of the amount of other gases in a particular gas
- Purity (film), a 1916 motion picture.
- Purity (quantum mechanics), a measure of correlation between a system and its environment
- Purity, a song by Slipknot on their debut self-titled album
- Purity in Buddhism, a spiritual purity of character or essence
- Purity Dairies, a dairy company in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
- Purity Factories, a food processing company in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
- Purity Distilling Company, an alcohol manufacturer involved in the Boston Molasses Disaster in the United States
- Black oil (also known as Purity), a fictional alien virus in the TV series The X-Files
- Purity, a former supermarket brand owned by Woolworths Limited
- Purity, the colorfulness of a light source
Famous quotes containing the word purity:
“Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“And all the popular statesmen say
That purity built up the State
And after kept it from decay;
Admonish us to cling to that
And let all base ambition be,
For intellect would make us proud....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Hoping that, when the devil days of my hurt
Drag out to their last dregs and I resume
On such legs as are left me, in such heart
As I can manage, remember to go home,
My taste will not have turned insensitive
To honey and bread old purity could love.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)