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What is the difference between celibate and celibacy?

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Celibate is a related term of celibacy.


As nouns the difference between celibate and celibacy

is that celibate is one who is not married, especially one who has taken a religious vow not to get married, usually because of being a member of a religious community while celibacy is abstaining from marriage; the state of being unmarried.

As a adjective celibate

is not married.

celibate

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Alternative forms

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Adjective

(-)
  • Not married.
  • (by extension) Abstaining from sexual relations and pleasures.
  • ''Members of religious communities sometimes take vows to remain celibate .

    Synonyms

    * (not married) unmarried, single * (abstaining from sex) abstinent, chaste, pure

    Derived terms

    * celibately

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is not married, especially one who has taken a religious vow not to get married, usually because of being a member of a religious community.
  • (obsolete) A celibate state; celibacy.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
  • He preferreth holy celibate before the estate of marrige.

    See also

    * friar * monk

    Anagrams

    * *

    celibacy

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Abstaining from marriage; the state of being unmarried.
  • Abstaining from sexual relations.
  • See also

    * abstinence * asexuality * chaste * chastity * purity * bachelordom