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morality Definition

mo·ral·ity (mō rali tē, mô-, mə-)

noun pl. -·ties

  1. moral quality or character; rightness or wrongness, as of an action
  2. the character of being in accord with the principles or standards of right conduct; right conduct; sometimes, specif., virtue in sexual conduct
  3. principles of right and wrong in conduct; ethics
  4. a particular system of such principles
  5. moral instruction or a moral lesson
  6. a narrative with a moral lesson
  7. morality play

Etymology: ME moralite < OFr < LL moralitas < L moralis

morality Synonyms

morality

n.

  1. Virtue

    righteousness, uprightness, honesty; see virtue 1.

  2. 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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