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Another word for morality

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morality

n.

Virtue
righteousness, uprightness, honesty; see virtue 1.
Adherence to approved standards of sexual conduct
purity, gentleness, decency; see chastity.

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Another word for morality

noun

The quality or state of being morally sound:
good, goodness, probity, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, uprightness, virtue, virtuousness. See right
The moral quality of a course of action:
ethic (used in plural), ethicality, ethicalness, propriety, righteousness, rightfulness, rightness. See right
A rule or habit of conduct with regard to right and wrong or a body of such rules and habits:
ethic, ethicality, moral (used in plural). See right

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He wasn't known for his morality or virtues.
Julia had her own ideas about morality, obviously.
Philip was by nature dull and phlegmatic. He had learnt morality from Fenelon's teaching, and showed himself throughout his life strongly adverse to the moral laxity of his grandfather and of most of the princes of his time.
Crime is infrequent, and morality, always above the Polynesian average, has improved.
"Virtue," says Socrates, "is knowledge": in the ultimate harmony of morality with reason is to be found the only true existence of man.

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