Morality

Quick meaning: Morality is a noun meaning (countable) A set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct.

Meaning

(countable) A set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A set of personal guiding principles for conduct or a general notion of how to behave, whether respectable or not.
2. (countable, archaic) A lesson or pronouncement which contains advice about proper behavior.
3. (countable) A morality play.
4. (uncountable, rare) Moral philosophy, the branch of philosophy which studies the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.
5. (countable, rare) A particular theory concerning the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.
6. (uncountable) 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.

Example Sentences

His morality was such as naturally proceeds from loose opinions.

I have to live for others and not for myself: thats middle class morality.

It may be true that you cannot legislate morality, but behavior can be regulated.

He smiled a little. "Morality is the average conduct of the average man at a given time and place. It is based on custom and expediency."

Word Forms

• moralities

Synonyms for morality

Depending on context, synonyms include decency, rectitude, righteousness, uprightness, virtuousness, morals.

Antonyms for morality

Common opposites include amorality, immorality.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include morals, moral, ethos, virtue, ethic, ethical.

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