CLEANLINESS Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

cleanliness

noun

Definition of cleanliness

as in hygiene

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Recent Examples of cleanliness Consuming raw foods skips the cooking step that often reduces harmful bacteria, so knowing your source and paying attention to freshness, cleanliness, and proper handling becomes even more important, Morris adds. — Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 26 Aug. 2026 Gather a bunch of people who have never lived on their own before, and there’s a good chance that not all of them will be conscientious about cleanliness. — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026 Richet executes the whole thing with an almost sterile cleanliness. — Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2026 The study evaluated customer satisfaction with various airport lounges across eight categories, including the value of the experience, the staff, the lounges’ food and drinks and their cleanliness and upkeep. — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cleanliness

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Noun

Fortunately, advances in sanitation, hand hygiene and antibiotics have made large outbreaks like those that wagon trains and military camps experienced much less common, at least in the United States.

— Elaine Reno, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2026
Students are served breakfast and lunch and can receive before- and after-school care as well as school uniforms and hygiene supplies, and families are given a Metro GoPass TAP card to help with transportation.

— Francesca Pinney, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of hygiene

Noun

The group claims that HIV treatment has improved in the decades since the military initially categorized HIV as a health problem that disqualifies someone from enlistment.

— Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 15 Sep. 2026
Companies and health systems that treat ambient documentation as a pure software problem (deploy it, minimize edits and measure only time saved) are more likely to discover the limits the hard way.

— Pat Williams, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of health

Noun

Emma’s resistance to the bland wholesomeness of recovery spaces speaks to a familiar cultural trope across media, in films and television shows; that sobriety is where flamboyance goes to die.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
But after seven episodes wearing down the viewer with a bleak perspective, in the season finale, Euphoria pulls itself out of its own somber patterns to reach for grace and mercy in Christian symbolism, American wholesomeness, and the concept of family.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 1 June 2026

Definition of wholesomeness

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