Morality
Definitions
- Recognition of the distinction between good and evil or between right and wrong; respect for and obedience to the rules of right conduct; the mental disposition or characteristic of behaving in a manner intended to produce morally good results.
- A set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct.
- A set of personal guiding principles for conduct or a general notion of how to behave, whether respectable or not.
- A lesson or pronouncement which contains advice about proper behavior.
- A morality play.
- Moral philosophy, the branch of philosophy which studies the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.
- A particular theory concerning the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.
Equivalents
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Azərbaycan diliəxlaq
Българскиетика
বাংলাআখলাক
Catalàmoralitat
Danskmoral
Eestimoraal
فارسیاخلاق
Gàidhligmoraltachd
Magyarerkölcs
Հայերենբարոյականություն
Íslenskasiðferði
Italianomoralità
ქართულიმორალი
Latinamōrālitās
Македонскиморал
Bahasa Melayuakhlak
Nederlandsmoraal
Portuguêsmoralidade
Românămoralitate
Slovenčinamorálka
Shqipmoral
Тоҷикӣахлоқ
Türkmençeahlak
Tagalogkagandahang-asal
ئۇيغۇرچەئەخلاق
Українськаморальність
اردواخلاق
O'zbekchaaxloq
Examples
“Without morality, intellect were impossible for him; a thoroughly immoral man could not know⟳ anything at all! To know⟳ a thing, what we can call⟳ knowing, a man must first love⟳ the thing, sympathize with it: that is, be virtuously related to it.”
“Ellery Jackson-Hubbard. […] A man radiating prosperity, optimism and selfishness. Has no morality whatever. Is a conscious individualist, cold-blooded, pitiless, working only for himself, and believing in nothing but himself.”
“Science and art without morality are not dangerous in the sense⟳ commonly supposed. They are not dangerous like⟳ a fire, but dangerous like⟳ a fog.”
“It may be true that you cannot legislate morality, but behavior can be regulated.”
“I have⟳ to live⟳ for others and not for myself: thats middle class morality.”
“He smiled a little. "Morality is the average conduct of the average man at a given time and place⟳. It is based on custom and expediency."”
“His morality was such as naturally proceeds from loose opinions.”
“Deputy District Attorney Bill Tingle called Jones "the devil's right-hand man" and said he should be punished for his "atrocious morality."”
“"She had done her duty"—"she left the matter⟳ to them that had a charge anent such things"—and "Providence would bring⟳ the mystery to light⟳ in his own⟳ fitting time"—such were the moralities with which the good dame consoled herself.”
“What mean⟳ these stale moralities, / Sir Preacher, from your desk you mumble?”
“The Moralities displayed something more of art and invention than the Mysteries; in them virtues, vices and qualities were personified, and something like⟳ a plot was frequently to be discovered.”
“Robinson sums up the conclusion of the first part of his book as being "that the task of the moralist is to set⟳ in their proper relation to one another the three different types of moral judgment . . . and so reveal⟳ the field of morality as a single self-coherent system".”
“Hume's morality which ‘implies some sentiment common to all mankind’; Kant's morality for all rational beings; Butler's morality with its presupposition of ‘uniformity of conscience’.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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