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Definition of Morality
1. Noun. Concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct.
Specialized synonyms: Righteousness, Rightness, Conscience, Good, Goodness, Chastity, Sexual Morality, Virtue
Attributes: Moral, Immoral, Pure, Impure
Antonyms: Immorality
Derivative terms: Moral, Moralistic
2. Noun. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.
Generic synonyms: Motivation, Motive, Need
Specialized synonyms: Hedonism, Conscience, Moral Sense, Scruples, Sense Of Right And Wrong, Christ Within, Inner Light, Light, Light Within
Derivative terms: Ethical, Ethical, Ethician, Ethicist, Moralistic
Definition of Morality
1. n. The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right.
Definition of Morality
1. Noun. 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. ¹
2. Noun. A set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct. ¹
3. Noun. A set of personal guiding principles for conduct or a general notion of how to behave, whether respectable or not. ¹
4. Noun. (countable archaic) A lesson or pronouncement which contains advice about proper behavior. ¹
5. Noun. (uncountable rare) Moral philosophy, the branch of philosophy which studies the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil. ¹
6. Noun. (countable rare) A particular theory concerning the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Morality
1. conformity to the rules of right conduct [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Morality
Literary usage of Morality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1830)
"Fourthly, Because the rule of morality is much more certain than that of faith,
all the civilized nations of the world agreeing in the great points of ..."
2. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1905)
"SCIENCE AS A TEACHER OF morality PROFESSOR JOHN M. COULTER, PH. ... Before attempting
to state its relations to morality, I wish to indicate what it is by ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1904)
"THE COMING SCIENTIFIC morality. "P HE object of the following article is to show
in a concise form the real origin of morality—the dependence of morality ..."
4. Ethics: Or, Moral Philosophy by Walter Henry Hill (1884)
"morality pertains, primarily and most properly, to deliberate acts of the will
... Therefore morality is: i, from the intrinsic order and goodness in things ..."
5. 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)
"What the Church accomplished in the course of the centuries for the raising of
the standard of morality, in the widest sense, by the inculcation of the ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"His system approached also German popular morality through its rational character,
its dualistic basis, and its attention to practical problems. ..."
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