HOW TO PRONOUNCE
cleanliness
/ˈklɛn.li.nᵻs/
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KLEN-lee-niss: the first vowel is short.
The beginning rhymes with “when,” unlike the long ee in “clean.” Keep the main stress on KLEN and the final two syllables lighter.
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“The inspection focused on cleanliness in the kitchen.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does cleanliness mean?
noun
- The property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene.
- Ritual purity.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈklɛn.li.nᵻs/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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The religious world was far indeed from the inspired utterance attributed to John Wesley, that "cleanliness is near akin to godliness."
Landry had an affection for the house on Jane Street, where he had first learned what cleanliness and order and courtesy were.
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It carries with it a thorough training in bodily cleanliness and physiology, a definite knowledge of the physiology and function of sex.
First, the wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness, of the employment.
But it is not from the moral standpoint that we wish to consider the subject of physical cleanliness, but from the hygienic.