"holiness" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈhoʊlinəs/ [General-American], /ˈhəʊlinəs/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-holiness.ogg Forms: holinesses [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English holynesse, holinesse, halinesse, from Old English hāliġnes (“holiness, a holy thing, rites”), from Proto-West Germanic *hailagnassī, equivalent to holy + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian hilligens (“holiness”), Old High German heilagnissi, heilīgnissi (“holiness”), whence Middle High German heilignis (“halidom”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|holynesse}} Middle English holynesse, {{inh|en|ang|hāliġnes|t=holiness, a holy thing, rites}} Old English hāliġnes (“holiness, a holy thing, rites”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*hailagnassī}} Proto-West Germanic *hailagnassī, {{af|en|holy|-ness}} holy + -ness, {{cog|fy|hilligens|t=holiness}} West Frisian hilligens (“holiness”), {{cog|goh|heilagnissi}} Old High German heilagnissi, {{cog|gmh|heilignis|t=halidom}} Middle High German heilignis (“halidom”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} holiness (countable and uncountable, plural holinesses)
  1. The state or condition of being holy. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: sacrality, sacredness, sanctity, holinesse [obsolete], holyness, holynesse Derived forms: His Holiness, holiness movement, Their Holinesses, Your Holiness Translations (state or condition of being holy): ἁγιασμός (hagiasmós) [masculine] (Ancient Greek), ἁγιωσύνη (hagiōsúnē) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), ὁσιότης (hosiótēs) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), قُدْسِيَّة (qudsiyya) [feminine] (Arabic), קודשא (qōdshā, qōdsho) [Hebrew, masculine] (Aramaic), ܩܘܕܫܐ (qōdshā, qōdsho) [Syriac, masculine] (Aramaic), müqəddəslik (Azerbaijani), qüdsiyyət (Azerbaijani), святост (svjatost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), santedat [feminine] (Catalan), 尊嚴 (Chinese Mandarin), 尊严 (zūnyán) (Chinese Mandarin), svatost [feminine] (Czech), heiligheid [feminine] (Dutch), sankteco (Esperanto), pyhyys (Finnish), sainteté [feminine] (French), Heiligkeit [feminine] (German), 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌹𐌸𐌰 (weihiþa) [feminine] (Gothic), αγιότητα (agiótita) [feminine] (Greek), αγιοσύνη (agiosýni) [feminine] (Greek), santeso (Ido), kesucian (Indonesian), kekudusan (Indonesian), kekeramatan (Indonesian), santità [feminine] (Italian), 尊厳 (songen) (alt: そんげん) (Japanese), 존엄 (joneom) (Korean), pîrozî [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), hellighet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), heilagskap [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), تقدس (taqaddos) (Persian), świętość [feminine] (Polish), santidade [feminine] (Portuguese), свя́тость (svjátostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), свяще́нность (svjaščénnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), santidad [feminine] (Spanish), utakatifu (Swahili), helighet [common-gender] (Swedish), kabanalan (Tagalog), పవిత్రత (pavitrata) (Telugu), kutsallık (Turkish), sancteiddrwydd [masculine] (Welsh)
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          "text": "R. Moskowitz charges cisgender readers to be as conscious and deliberate with our religious identities as transgender and gender non-conforming people are with theirs, arguing that holiness is only achieved through continuous and unrelenting struggle and change.",
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          "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
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          "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
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          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
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          "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/En-us-holiness.ogg/En-us-holiness.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/En-us-holiness.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "holiness"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "His Holiness"
    },
    {
      "word": "holiness movement"
    },
    {
      "word": "Their Holinesses"
    },
    {
      "word": "Your Holiness"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "holynesse"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English holynesse",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "hāliġnes",
        "t": "holiness, a holy thing, rites"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English hāliġnes (“holiness, a holy thing, rites”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*hailagnassī"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *hailagnassī",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "holy",
        "3": "-ness"
      },
      "expansion": "holy + -ness",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fy",
        "2": "hilligens",
        "t": "holiness"
      },
      "expansion": "West Frisian hilligens (“holiness”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "goh",
        "2": "heilagnissi"
      },
      "expansion": "Old High German heilagnissi",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gmh",
        "2": "heilignis",
        "t": "halidom"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle High German heilignis (“halidom”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English holynesse, holinesse, halinesse, from Old English hāliġnes (“holiness, a holy thing, rites”), from Proto-West Germanic *hailagnassī, equivalent to holy + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian hilligens (“holiness”), Old High German heilagnissi, heilīgnissi (“holiness”), whence Middle High German heilignis (“halidom”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "holinesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "holiness (countable and uncountable, plural holinesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ho‧li‧ness"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Aramaic terms with redundant script codes",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms derived from Old English",
        "English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Old English",
        "English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
        "English terms suffixed with -ness",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
        "Terms with Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Aramaic translations",
        "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Gothic translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Ido translations",
        "Terms with Indonesian translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Northern Kurdish translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
        "Terms with Persian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swahili translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Tagalog translations",
        "Terms with Telugu translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Welsh translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019, Rachel Timoner, “Book Review: Textual Activism by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz”, in Tikkun:",
          "text": "R. Moskowitz charges cisgender readers to be as conscious and deliberate with our religious identities as transgender and gender non-conforming people are with theirs, arguing that holiness is only achieved through continuous and unrelenting struggle and change.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state or condition of being holy."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "holy",
          "holy"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhoʊlinəs/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhəʊlinəs/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-holiness.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b5/En-us-holiness.ogg/En-us-holiness.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/En-us-holiness.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "sacrality"
    },
    {
      "word": "sacredness"
    },
    {
      "word": "sanctity"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "holinesse"
    },
    {
      "word": "holyness"
    },
    {
      "word": "holynesse"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "qudsiyya",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "قُدْسِيَّة"
    },
    {
      "code": "arc",
      "lang": "Aramaic",
      "roman": "qōdshā, qōdsho",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "Hebrew",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "קודשא"
    },
    {
      "code": "arc",
      "lang": "Aramaic",
      "roman": "qōdshā, qōdsho",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "Syriac",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ܩܘܕܫܐ"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "word": "müqəddəslik"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "word": "qüdsiyyət"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "svjatost",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "святост"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "santedat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "word": "尊嚴"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zūnyán",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "word": "尊严"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "svatost"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "heiligheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "word": "sankteco"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "word": "pyhyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sainteté"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Heiligkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "weihiþa",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌹𐌸𐌰"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "agiótita",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "αγιότητα"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "agiosýni",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "αγιοσύνη"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "hagiasmós",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ἁγιασμός"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "hagiōsúnē",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ἁγιωσύνη"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "hosiótēs",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ὁσιότης"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "word": "santeso"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "word": "kesucian"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "word": "kekudusan"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "word": "kekeramatan"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "santità"
    },
    {
      "alt": "そんげん",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "songen",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "word": "尊厳"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "joneom",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "word": "존엄"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pîrozî"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "hellighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "heilagskap"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "taqaddos",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "word": "تقدس"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "świętość"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "santidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svjátostʹ",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "свя́тость"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svjaščénnostʹ",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "свяще́нность"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "santidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "word": "utakatifu"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "helighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "word": "kabanalan"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "pavitrata",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "word": "పవిత్రత"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "word": "kutsallık"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "state or condition of being holy",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sancteiddrwydd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "holiness"
}

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