Cleanliness vs Filth - What's the difference?
cleanliness | filth |
the property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene
dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles
smut; that which sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution
* Tillotson
(British, pejorative, slang) the police
weeds growing on pasture land
As nouns the difference between cleanliness and filth
is that cleanliness is the property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene while filth is dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.cleanliness
English
Noun
(-)- Cleanliness is next to godliness. (proverb)
filth
English
Noun
(-)- to purify the soul from the dross and filth of sensual delights
- Grampa remembers when he had to cut filth with a scythe.