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Wholesome vs Chaste - What's the difference?

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Wholesome is a related term of chaste.


As adjectives the difference between wholesome and chaste

is that wholesome is promoting good health and well-being while chaste is abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate.

wholesome

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Promoting good health and well-being.
  • Promoting moral and mental well-being.
  • Sound and healthy.
  • Promoting virtue or being virtuous.

    • Synonyms

    * (promoting health) healthy, healthful, salubrious

    Antonyms

    * unwholesome

    Derived terms

    * wholesomely * wholesomeness

    References

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    chaste

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate
  • virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience
  • simple, austere, undecorative
    • a chaste style in composition or art
  • modest, decent, morally pure
    • a chaste''' mind; '''chaste eyes

    Usage notes

    * Married couples are often exhorted to have "chaste sex"--compare the Vatican encyclical Casti Connubii (Of Chaste Wedlock ).

    Derived terms

    * chastity

    See also

    * pure

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