Purity may refer to:

Books

  • Pureza (novel), a 1937 Brazilian 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 and Labrador, Canada
  • Purity Distilling Company, an alcohol manufacturer involved in the Boston Molasses Disaster in the U.S.
  • Purity FM, a Nigerian radio station
  • Purity, a former supermarket brand owned by Woolworths (Australia)

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

Music

  • "Purity" (Slipknot song), 1999
  • Purity (ASAP Rocky song), 2018
  • Purity (album), a 2003 album by Hate Forest

Places

  • Purity Mountain, a summit in Canada

Religion

  • Purity, the absence of vice in human character, synonymous with chastity when used in reference to a person's sexual nature
  • Ritual purification, a feature of many religions
  • Purity in Buddhism, a spiritual purity of character or essence
  • Ritual purity in Islam, both a literal and metaphorical cleanliness

Science

  • Purity, the absence of impurity or contaminants in a substance; for example, Chemical purity
  • Purity, the proportion of a named pure substance in a sample (by weight, mass, volume, or count)
  • Fineness, several units of purity of precious metals
  • Nine (purity), an informal unit of purity
  • Purity, the colorfulness of a light source
  • Purity (quantum mechanics), a measure of correlation between a system and its environment
  • Purity (algebraic geometry), a lack of unmixed-ness

See also

  • Blood purity (disambiguation)
  • Chemical purity
  • Concentration
  • Impurity (disambiguation)
  • Pure (disambiguation)