ways of thinking and behaving shared generally by a society or group
Origin of mores
L, plural of mos, custom: see mood
noun
Mores is defined as the unspoken but understood norms of a community or society.
An example of mores is the morally strict behavior that is required in the south versus in another part of the US.
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mores
plural noun
- The accepted traditional customs and usages of a particular social group.
- Moral attitudes.
- Manners; ways.
Origin of mores
Latin mōrēs pl. of mōs custom ; see mē-1 in Indo-European roots.Usage Note: Although educated 19th-century speakers of English would pronounce mores as (môr′ēz) according to the customary pronunciation of Latin in English-speaking countries at that time, 75 percent of the Usage Panel in 2005 found this same pronunciation unacceptable (although 5 percent actually preferred it). Nowadays, the accepted pronunciation is (môr′āz), with a long a as in days and a (z) sound at the end. It is incorrect to pronounce it as a single syllable (môrz), and the pronunciation ending with an (s) sound, which more closely resembles the way the Latin word was actually pronounced by the Romans, may sound pretentious.
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Noun
(plural only)
- A set of moral norms or customs derived from generally accepted practices rather than written laws.
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Sentence Examples
- He teaches them good manners and social mores, and he expects them to be just as well-behaved in private as they are in public.
- He also has encyclopedic informations on cultural mores across the galaxy - just the droid you would want at your side to keep you from committing the odd destruction-of-your-race faux pas when dealing with aliens.
- Mork was an ET who was taken in by human Mindy, and humor was found in his inability to understand human cultural mores and norms.
- In other countries, there may be variations based on the cultural mores, such as head scarves in Muslim countries.
- So in effect, writing science fiction is harder than writing 'plain' fiction, since you have to know how to write fiction AND how to world-build and all the conventions and mores of the science fiction genre.
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