moralitynoun
uk/məˈræl.ə.ti/us/məˈræl.ə.t̬i/[ C or U ] a set of personal or social standards for good or bad behaviour and character:
They argued for a new morality based on self-sacrifice and honesty.
[ U ] the quality of being right, honest, or acceptable:
I have to question the morality of forcing poor people to pay for their medical treatment.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Morality and rules of behaviour
- antisocial
- bioethics
- book
- claim
- conscience
- decency
- double standard
- moralize
- morally
- norm
- object lesson
- precept
- social contract
- spirit
- the rights and wrongs idiom
- the ways of the world idiom
- two wrongs don't make a right idiom
- value
- voice
- wrong
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