holiness

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• General-American: /ˈhoʊlinəs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhəʊlinəs/
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• CMU ARPABET: HH OW1 L IY0 N AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”).

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: قُدْسِيَّة (qudsiyya) — state or condition of being holy
• Aramaic: קודשא (qōdshā, qōdsho) — state or condition of being holy
• Aramaic: ܩܘܕܫܐ (qōdshā, qōdsho) — state or condition of being holy
• Azerbaijani: müqəddəslik — state or condition of being holy
• Azerbaijani: qüdsiyyət — state or condition of being holy
• Bulgarian: святост (svjatost) — state or condition of being holy
• Catalan: santedat — state or condition of being holy
• Chinese Mandarin: 尊嚴 /尊严 (zūnyán) — state or condition of being holy
• Czech: svatost — state or condition of being holy
• Dutch: heiligheid — state or condition of being holy
• Esperanto: sankteco — state or condition of being holy
• Finnish: pyhyys — state or condition of being holy
• French: sainteté — state or condition of being holy
• German: Heiligkeit — state or condition of being holy
• Gothic: 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌹𐌸𐌰 (weihiþa) — state or condition of being holy
• Greek: αγιότητα (agiótita) — state or condition of being holy
• Greek: αγιοσύνη (agiosýni) — state or condition of being holy
• Ancient Greek: ἁγιασμός (hagiasmós) — state or condition of being holy
• Ancient Greek: ἁγιωσύνη (hagiōsúnē) — state or condition of being holy
• Ancient Greek: ὁσιότης (hosiótēs) — state or condition of being holy
• Ido: santeso — state or condition of being holy
• Indonesian: kesucian — state or condition of being holy
• Indonesian: kekudusan — state or condition of being holy
• Indonesian: kekeramatan — state or condition of being holy
• Italian: santità — state or condition of being holy
• Japanese: 尊厳 (songen) — state or condition of being holy
• Korean: 존엄 (joneom) — state or condition of being holy
• Northern Kurdish: pîrozî — state or condition of being holy
• Norwegian Bokmål: hellighet — state or condition of being holy
• Norwegian Nynorsk: heilagskap — state or condition of being holy
• Persian: تقدس (taqaddos) — state or condition of being holy
• Polish: świętość — state or condition of being holy
• Portuguese: santidade — state or condition of being holy
• Russian: свя́тость (svjátostʹ) — state or condition of being holy
• Russian: свяще́нность (svjaščénnostʹ) — state or condition of being holy
• Spanish: santidad — state or condition of being holy
• Swahili: utakatifu — state or condition of being holy
• Swedish: helighet — state or condition of being holy
• Tagalog: kabanalan — state or condition of being holy
• Tamil: தூய்மை (tūymai) — state or condition of being holy
• Tamil: பரிசுத்தம் (paricuttam) — state or condition of being holy
• Telugu: పవిత్రత (pavitrata) — state or condition of being holy
• Turkish: kutsallık — state or condition of being holy
• Welsh: sancteiddrwydd — state or condition of being holy
• French: sainteté — used to address the pope
• German: Heiligkeit — used to address the pope
• Icelandic: Heilagleiki — used to address the pope
• Italian: Santità — used to address the pope
• Japanese: 台下 (daika) — used to address the pope
• Portuguese: Santidade — used to address the pope
• Russian: святе́йшество (svjatéjšestvo) — used to address the pope