Virginity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: vir=gin=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

Virginity, n. [OE. virgintee, F. virginité, L. virginitas.].

•  The quality or state of being a virgin; undefiled purity or chastity; maidenhood.  [1913 Webster]
•  The unmarried life; celibacy.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Virginity, n. the state of being a virgin.

Etymology

OF virginit{eacute} f. L virginitas (as VIRGIN)

THESAURUS

Virginity

Platonic love, abstinence, artlessness, bachelordom, bachelorhood, bachelorism, bachelorship, berry, brand-newness, callowness, celibacy, chasteness, chastity, continence, continency, dewiness, freshness, gloss of novelty, greenness, immaturity, inartificiality, intactness, lateness, maidenhead, maidenhood, mint condition, misogamy, misogyny, monachism, monasticism, natural man, natural state, naturalness, nature, newbornness, newfangledness, newfangleness, newness, novelness, novelty, nowness, originality, presentness, pristineness, purity, rawness, recency, recentness, single blessedness, single state, singleness, spinsterhood, state of nature, strangeness, uncommonness, unfamiliarity, unusualness, unwed state, virgin state

ROGET THESAURUS

Virginity

Purity

N purity, decency, decorum, delicacy, continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame, pudicity, pucelage, virginity, vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus, Lucretia, Diana, prude, pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous, virginibus puerisque, simon-pure, chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic, virgin, unsullied, cherry, as chaste as unsunn'd snow, a soul as white as heaven, 'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity, to the pure all things are pure.

Celibacy

N celibacy, singleness, single blessedness, bachelorhood, bachelorship, misogamy, misogyny, virginity, pucelage, maidenhood, maidenhead, unmarried man, bachelor, Coelebs, agamist, old bachelor, misogamist, misogynist, monogamist, monk, unmarried woman, spinster, maid, maiden, virgin, feme sole, old maid, bachelor girl, girl-bachelor, nun, unmarried, unwed, unwedded, wifeless, spouseless, single.