单词 | morality |
释义 | morality/məˈralɪti /noun (plural moralities) [mass noun] 1Principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behaviour: the matter boiled down to simple morality: innocent prisoners ought to be freed...
Synonyms ethics, rights and wrongs, correctness, ethicality virtue, goodness, good behaviour, righteousness, rectitude, uprightness; morals, principles, honesty, integrity, propriety, honour, justice, fair play, justness, decency, probity, chasteness, chastity, purity, blamelessness moral standards, morals, moral code, ethics, principles of right and wrong, rules of conduct, standards/principles of behaviour, ethos, mores, standards, ideals 1.1 [count noun] A particular system of values and principles of conduct: a bourgeois morality...
1.2The extent to which an action is right or wrong: the issue of the morality of the possession of nuclear weapons...
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French moralite or late Latin moralitas, from Latin moralis (see moral). Rhymes |
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