Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

purity test

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.68 in modern English

Syllables: pu-ri-ty test
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An informal survey that assesses the participant's supposed degree of innocence in worldly matters, such as sex, drugs, and deceit.

noun

A rigid standard on a specific issue by which a politician or other figure is evaluated.

Example Sentences

"[…] popular online “purity tests,” which use a series of 500 questions about sexual experience and drug use to establish one's level of “purity.”"
"To begin, we return to Will: “What started as a critical reading of a children's book became a social justice 'racial equity' purity test full of hypocrisy”."
"In retrospect, this was the height (or perhaps the nadir) of a kind of purity-test politics that was making some swing voters, including [Joe] Rogan, feel less at home in the Democratic coalition."
"“President Trump did not build the greatest coalition in politics by running his supporters through endless, self-defeating purity tests.”"

Inflected Forms

purity tests (plural)

Phrases

nerdity test

Questions

What does purity test mean?: An informal survey that assesses the participant's supposed degree of innocence in worldly matters, such as sex, drugs, and deceit.

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