: of, relating to, or suggestive of a time before the development of a personal or social moral code : not having, showing, or involving an understanding of right and wrong premoral instincts/behaviors
a pre-moral society
For what is Archie but a premoral child, almost entirely self-serving, quite unaware of anyone else's needs …
Richard Schickel … presents characters stunted at a sort of pre-moral stage of life …
Mick LaSalle It is pre-moral, invoking not the concepts of right and wrong, but the psychological mechanism of empathy.
Daniel Maidman