impurity Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
    dross.
    • there were impurities in the water
  2. noun the condition of being impure
    impureness.

WordNet

Im*pu"ri*ty noun
Etymology
L. impuritas: cf. F. impureté.
Wordforms
plural Impurities
Definitions
  1. The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration.
    Profaneness, impurity, or scandal, is not wit. Buckminster.
  2. That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient.
    Foul impurities reigned among the monkish clergy. Atterbury.
  3. (Script.) Want of ceremonial purity; defilement.

Webster 1913