| Main Entry: | conformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compliance |
Synonyms: |
acquiescence, allegiance, assent, consent, conventionality, docility, obedience, observance, orthodoxy, resignation, submission, willingness |
Antonyms: |
difference, fight, noncomformity, refusal |
| Main Entry: | decency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | respectable behavior |
Synonyms: |
appropriateness, ceremoniousness, civility, conventionality, correctness, courtesy, decorum, dignity, etiquette, fitness, fittingness, formality, good form, good manners, honesty, modesty, propriety, respectability, righteousness, seemliness, virtue |
Antonyms: |
immodesty, immorality, impropriety, indecency, obsceneness, obscenity |
| Main Entry: | ethics/ethic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral philosophy, values |
Synonyms: |
belief, conduct, conscience, convention, conventionalities, criteria, decency, ethos, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, natural law, nature, practice, principles, right and wrong, rules of conduct, standard, standards, the Golden Rule |
Antonyms: |
corruption, immorality |
| Main Entry: | formality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | convention, custom |
Synonyms: |
academism, ceremony, convenance, conventionality, form, gesture, liturgy, matter of form, officialism, procedure, red tape, rite, ritual, rituality, rubric, rule, service, solemnity, solemnness, stereotype, tradition |
Antonyms: |
informality |
| Main Entry: | ethics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | morality |
Synonyms: |
belief, conduct, conscience, convention, conventionalities, criteria, decency, ethic, ethos, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, natural law, nature, practice, principles, standard, standards, value |
| Notes: | morality is beliefs regarding appropriate behavior, while ethics is the formal study of morality |
| Main Entry: | properness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decency |
Synonyms: |
appropriateness, ceremoniousness, civility, comeliness, conventionality, correctness, courtesy, decentness, decorousness, decorum, dignity, etiquette, fitness, fittingness, formality, good form, good manners, honesty, modesty, propriety, respectability, respectableness, righteousness, seemliness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | respectableness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decency |
Synonyms: |
appropriateness, ceremoniousness, civility, comeliness, conventionality, correctness, courtesy, decentness, decorousness, decorum, dignity, etiquette, fitness, fittingness, formality, good form, good manners, honesty, modesty, properness, propriety, respectability, righteousness, seemliness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | rightfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethics |
Synonyms: |
belief, conduct, conscience, convention, conventionalities, criteria, decency, ethic, ethicality, ethicalness, ethos, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, natural law, nature, practice, principles, propriety, righteousness, rightness, standard, standards, value |
| Main Entry: | rightness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethics |
Synonyms: |
belief, conduct, conscience, convention, conventionalities, criteria, decency, ethic, ethicality, ethicalness, ethos, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, natural law, nature, practice, principles, propriety, righteousness, rightfulness, standard, standards, value |
| Main Entry: | seemliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decency |
Synonyms: |
appropriateness, ceremoniousness, civility, comeliness, conventionality, correctness, courtesy, decentness, decorousness, decorum, dignity, etiquette, fitness, fittingness, formality, good form, good manners, honesty, modesty, properness, propriety, respectability, respectableness, righteousness, virtue |