morality Definition
mo·ral·ity (mō ral′i tē, mô-, mə-)
noun pl. -·ties
- moral quality or character; rightness or wrongness, as of an action
- the character of being in accord with the principles or standards of right conduct; right conduct; sometimes, specif., virtue in sexual conduct
- principles of right and wrong in conduct; ethics
- a particular system of such principles
- moral instruction or a moral lesson
- a narrative with a moral lesson
- morality play
Etymology: ME moralite < OFr < LL moralitas < L moralis
morality Synonyms
morality
n.
Virtue
righteousness, uprightness, honesty; see virtue 1.Adherence to approved standards of sexual conduct
purity, gentleness, decency; see chastity.
morality Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- abortion: But how do you decide the morality of an abortion?
- action: We cannot decide the morality of actions without an ethical code.
- relationship: Let me speak, simply, of morality of relationship.
Converse of object
- preach: At the same time, if he preaches morality, he after all teaches the very same idea himself.
- reject: It is often suggested that we have no ethics of our own; very often the bourgeoisie accuse us communists of rejecting all morality.
- impose: I will make enemies if I impose morality on people.
- argue: The Good, the Bad and the Obligatory Colin McGinn has argued that ordinary morality requires that each of us be morally perfect.
- teach: At the moment a number of Christian leaders are being publicly attacked from outside simply for teaching biblical morality.
- determine: Page^ This, then, is the traditional system for determining the morality of actions.
Adjective modifier
- godless: Looking in the Distance: The Human Search for Meaning is the companion volume to Bishop Richard Holloway's Godless Morality.
- sexual: Anyway, his attitude to sexual morality may have caused a Victorian eyebrow or two to rise.
- bourgeois: We must destroy bourgeois ideas and values, bourgeois morality, the bourgeois standards which create the mental and moral slavery of the proletariat.
- dubious: The fact that many Orthodox ' leaders ' lived lives of dubious morality is not of importance.
- Christian: That is how Christian morality has always defined itself.
- biblical: At the moment a number of Christian leaders are being publicly attacked from outside simply for teaching biblical morality.
Modifies a noun
- tale: Room at the Top is, for Laing, a " morality tale " , which tells of the cost of affluence " .
- play: It is very hard to find a moral here, a key failure in what is basically a morality play.
- cannot: Politics cannot be detached from morality, but morality cannot be detached from spirituality.
Noun used with modifier
- humanist: But beyond that, what can humanist morality do for our fellows.
- Buddhist: Download his teachings on " Buddhist morality " in MP3 audio format.
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