Purity

Purity is the absence of impurity or contaminants in a substance. This term also applies to the absence of vice in human character.

• Ritual purification, a feature of many religions
• Purity in Buddhism, a spiritual purity of character or essence
• Purity (quantum mechanics), a measure of correlation between a system and its environment
• Purity (gas), an indication of the amount of other gases in a particular gas
• Purity, the colorfulness of a light source

Purity may also refer to:

Film

• Purity (film), a 1916 motion picture
• Purity by Anat Zuria
• Black oil (The X-Files) (also known as Purity), a fictional alien virus in the TV series The X-Files

Books

• Pureza (Purity), a 1937 novel by José Lins do Rego
• Purity (novel), a 2015 novel by Jonathan Franzen
  • Purity (TV series), a TV series based on the novel
• Purity, a 2012 novel by Jackson Pearce
• Purity, a 1998 novel by Shaun Hutson
• Purity, a 2007 play by Thomas Bradshaw (playwright)
• Cleanness, also known as Purity, a 14th-century poem

Companies

• Purity Dairies, a dairy company in Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• Purity Factories, a food processing company in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
• Purity Distilling Company, an alcohol manufacturer involved in the Boston Molasses Disaster in the U.S.
• Purity, a former supermarket brand owned by Woolworths Limited

Music

• "Purity", a 1999 song by Slipknot on their debut self-titled album

See also

• All pages beginning with "Purity"
• All pages with titles containing Purity
• Blood purity (disambiguation)
• Pure (disambiguation)
• Impurity (disambiguation)