CLEANLINESS Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

cleanliness

noun

Definition of cleanliness

as in hygiene

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Recent Examples of cleanliness The study evaluated customer satisfaction with various airport lounges across eight categories, including the value of the experience, the staff, the lounges’ food and drinks and their cleanliness and upkeep. — Nathan Diller, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026 Travel pros reveal the early warning signs of poor maintenance, understaffing, and cleanliness issues that guests often overlook. — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 12 Aug. 2026 The cycles of illness and deflection at Taylor Farms illustrate a larger problem in the American food safety system, the experts said, which overwhelmingly relies on companies to self-police the cleanliness of their own produce. — Yahya Abou-Ghazala, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026 Inspectors found issues with unsafe food storage, improper labeling and an overall lack of cleanliness, according to a city of Arlington spokesperson. — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cleanliness

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Noun

This deployment included a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 250 days, which caused concerns following reports of deteriorating mental health among the crew and shortages of supplies including food and hygiene products.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2026
As if dating weren’t already enough of a gamble, a new trend has some men skipping their usual hygiene routines before meeting a prospective partner.

— Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of hygiene

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At this point in the WSL’s existence, eight years since becoming a fully professional league, players now ageing out at the title contenders do so with all the advantages — finances, facilities, health — of only knowing full-time football.

— Katie Whyatt, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Zambia is particularly sensitive amid tensions over US health assistance and mining, while Kenya is pursuing deeper US trade and investment.

— Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of health

Noun

Emma’s resistance to the bland wholesomeness of recovery spaces speaks to a familiar cultural trope across media, in films and television shows; that sobriety is where flamboyance goes to die.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
But after seven episodes wearing down the viewer with a bleak perspective, in the season finale, Euphoria pulls itself out of its own somber patterns to reach for grace and mercy in Christian symbolism, American wholesomeness, and the concept of family.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 1 June 2026

Definition of wholesomeness

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