holiness

See also: Holiness

English

Alternative forms

• (all obsolete) holinesse, holyness, holynesse

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”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊlinəs/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhəʊlinəs/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: ho‧li‧ness

Noun

holiness (countable and uncountable, plural holinesses)

1. The state or condition of being holy.
   • 2019, Rachel Timoner, “Book Review: Textual Activism by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz”, in Tikkun‎^[1]:

     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.

Synonyms

• sacrality
• sacredness
• sanctity

Derived terms

• His Holiness
• holiness movement
• Their Holinesses
• Your Holiness

Translations

state or condition of being holy

• Arabic: قُدْسِيَّة f (qudsiyya)
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: קודשא m (qōdshā, qōdsho)

  Syriac: ܩܘܕܫܐ m (qōdshā, qōdsho)

• Azerbaijani: müqəddəslik, qüdsiyyət
• Bulgarian: святост f (svjatost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 尊嚴／尊严 (zh) (zūnyán)

• Czech: svatost f
• Dutch: heiligheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: sankteco
• Finnish: pyhyys (fi)
• French: sainteté (fr) f
• German: Heiligkeit (de) f
• Gothic: 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌹𐌸𐌰 f (weihiþa)
• Greek: αγιότητα (el) f (agiótita), αγιοσύνη (el) f (agiosýni)

  Ancient: ἁγιασμός m (hagiasmós), ἁγιωσύνη f (hagiōsúnē), ὁσιότης f (hosiótēs)

• Ido: santeso (io)
• Indonesian: kesucian (id), kekudusan (id), kekeramatan (id)
• Italian: santità (it) f
• Japanese: 尊厳 (ja) (そんげん, songen)
• Korean: 존엄 (joneom)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pîrozî (ku) f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hellighet m or f

  Nynorsk: heilagskap m

• Persian: تقدس (fa) (taqaddos)
• Polish: świętość (pl) f
• Portuguese: santidade (pt) f
• Russian: свя́тость (ru) f (svjátostʹ), свяще́нность (ru) f (svjaščénnostʹ)
• Spanish: santidad (es) f
• Swahili: utakatifu
• Swedish: helighet (sv) c
• Tagalog: kabanalan
• Telugu: పవిత్రత (te) (pavitrata)
• Turkish: kutsallık (tr)
• Welsh: sancteiddrwydd m