CLEANNESS Synonyms: 83 Similar and Opposite Words

cleanness

noun

Definition of cleanness

as in cleanliness

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cleanliness

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as in purity

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Recent Examples of cleanness Diego Schwartzman, one of South America’s preeminent male players of the past two decades, remembers warming up with a 15-year-old Fonseca ahead of the Rio de Janeiro Open final against Alcaraz in 2022, and being struck by both the cleanness of the youngster’s strike and its inaccuracy. — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026 The home support, angry at referee Rob Jones throughout, could barely muster an appeal for a penalty given the cleanness of the challenge. — Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025 Copland’s music has a cleanness, a belief that all the parts must function. — Jane Levere, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024 Our special boosters powerfully break through any type of stain or odor, giving you an all-natural cleanness that leaves your clothes looking and smelling great. — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023 The sparseness of the production design and cleanness of the editing permit Adkins and Long’s full-tilt gracefulness to be the scene’s primary focus. — Vulture, 7 Mar. 2023 The reasons include not just gas's relative abundance and cheapness, its cleanness, and its low carbon content compared with coal, but also its flexibility, as a recent Worldwatch report observes. — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Dec. 2010

Recent Examples of Synonyms for cleanness

Noun

Taking Shortcuts With Cleanliness Be thorough with cleanliness steps.

— Nancy LeBrun, Verywell Health, 23 July 2026
Guests lie on linen sheets, washed daily, on the floor for cleanliness.

— Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026

Definition of cleanliness

Noun

If the conservative base continues to demand ideological purity, pushing polarizing firebrands into a general election, the result will always be an immediate, lopsided blowout.

— Dain Fitzgerald, The Washington Examiner, 1 Aug. 2026
The red, white and blue represent bravery, purity and loyalty, respectively.

— Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 July 2026

Definition of purity

Noun

Despite glowing reviews and fans begging for its release, a film industry dominated by political correctness refused to touch it.

— William Earl, Variety, 30 July 2026
After finding the attack, Mythos implemented an end-to-end verification pipeline to convince itself—and the human operator—of the attack’s correctness.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026

Definition of correctness

Noun

Neill was a performer whose bone-deep decency shone through his work and was amplified in later years by a social-media presence that featured him reminiscing about his career or hanging out with animals on his farm, or maybe cuddling a duck.

— Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 14 July 2026
The message of the Corcoran cancellation was that crossing some undefined line of decency gave the government license to come after you.

— Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 July 2026

Definition of decency

Noun

Cool Machine is definitive not only for its sweep but also for the rightness, the evocative precision, of the details that fill its paragraphs like the mystery mix inside the skin of a Gray’s Papaya hot dog.

— David Hajdu, The Atlantic, 16 July 2026
If the Sun is high in the lunar sky during the flyby, there will be few shadows, and the crew will be looking for subtle variations in surface color and rightness.

— Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2026

Definition of rightness

Noun

The strongest works in The New Grotesque ingloriously depict the female body as qualified and discarded in equal measure, a battlefield on which wars over propriety are fought.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026
Some are in-house, propriety applications developed by larger companies.

— Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

Definition of propriety

Noun

This series is to encourage [and] inspire hip hop and remind us all [of] the pureness of hip hop.

— Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
The lush and magical pureness requires a sort of kinship with travelers—and awareness of impact can help to preserve this.

— Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2023

Definition of pureness

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