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Definition of Immorality
1. Noun. The quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct. "The immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction"
Specialized synonyms: Unrighteousness, Corruption, Degeneracy, Depravation, Depravity, Putrefaction, Corruptibility, Licentiousness, Wantonness, Anomie, Anomy, Wrongness, Evil, Evilness
Derivative terms: Immoral, Immoral
Antonyms: Morality
2. Noun. Morally objectionable behavior.
Generic synonyms: Evildoing, Transgression
Specialized synonyms: Devilry, Deviltry, Foul Play, Irreverence, Violation, Sexual Immorality
Derivative terms: Iniquitous, Wicked
Definition of Immorality
1. n. The state or quality of being immoral; vice.
Definition of Immorality
1. Noun. The state or quality of being immoral; vice. ¹
2. Noun. An immoral act or practice. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Immorality
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Immorality
Literary usage of Immorality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ethics: An Investigation of the Facts and Laws of the Moral Life by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Edward Bradford Titchener, Margaret Floy Washburn, Julia Henrietta Gulliver (1901)
"As in the egoism of individual life, so in that of historical life, the source
of immorality is sometimes a subordination of the social will to individual ..."
2. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1895)
"In precisely the proportion that society substitutes an unhealthy artificiality
for sturdy simplicity in life, immorality increases. ..."
3. The history of England from the Revolution to the death of George the second by Tobias George Smollett (1848)
"The Earl of Nottingham complained in the House of Lords of the growth of atheism,
profaneness, and immorality; and a bill was brought in for suppressing ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"Survey 33:291-2 D 12 '14 immoral literature and pictures immorality of the modern
... Forum 52:87-99 Ja '15 immorality. See Vice immortality Conception of ..."
5. Introduction to the Study of Sociology by Edward Cary Hayes (1918)
"Vice, Sin, immorality, Tort and Crime.—Vice is action injurious to the actor and
offset by no social gains; it brings its own penalty according to the ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... the Church is at once the history of her charitable activity exercised through
the priesthood. There have indeed been waves of degeneracy and immorality ..."
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