SANITARINESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The state of being conducive to health

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("sanitariness" is a kind of...):

sanitary condition (the state of sanitation (clean or dirty))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sanitariness"):

hygiene (a condition promoting sanitary practices)

antisepsis; asepsis; sterileness; sterility ((of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms)

sanitation (the state of being clean and conducive to health)

Antonym:

unsanitariness (a state that is not conducive to health)

Derivation:

sanitary (free from filth and pathogens)