| Main Entry: | ethicalness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethic |
Synonyms: |
code, ethical code, ethical values, ethicality, ethics, moral, moral philosophy, morality, principle, principles, set of values, value-system |
| Main Entry: | morality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethics, honesty |
Synonyms: |
chastity, conduct, decency, ethicality, ethicalness, gentleness, godliness, good habits, goodness, honor, ideals, incorruptibility, incorruption, integrity, justice, manners, moral code, morals, mores, philosophy, principle, principles, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, saintliness, standards, uprightness, virtue, worthiness |
| Notes: | morality is beliefs regarding appropriate behavior, while ethics is the formal study of morality |
Antonyms: |
amorality, badness, corruption, dishonesty, evil, immorality, sinfulness, unethicalness |
| Main Entry: | virtue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honor, integrity |
Synonyms: |
advantage, asset, character, charity, chastity, consideration, credit, ethic, ethicality, ethicalness, excellence, faith, faithfulness, fineness, fortitude, generosity, good point, goodness, high-mindedness, hope, ideal, incorruptibility, innocence, justice, kindness, love, merit, morality, plus*, probity, prudence, purity, quality, rectitude, respectability, righteousness, temper, temperance, trustworthiness, uprightness, value, worth, worthiness |
Antonyms: |
dishonor, evil, immorality, vice |
| Main Entry: | moral code |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | value system |
Synonyms: |
code of conduct, ethicalness, good morals, ideology, moral philosophy, morality, morals, principles, standards, values |
| Main Entry: | ethic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral principle |
Synonyms: |
code, ethical code, ethical values, ethicality, ethicalness, ethics, fairness, integrity, moral, moral philosophy, morality, principle, principles, righteousness, rightfulness, rightness, set of values, value-system, virtue |
| Main Entry: | ethicality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethic |
Synonyms: |
code, ethical code, ethical values, ethicalness, ethics, moral, moral philosophy, morality, principle, principles, set of values, value-system |
| 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 |
| Concept: | Virtue. |
| Category: | 3. Moral conditions |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
virtue; virtuousness; morality; moral rectitude; integrity (probity); nobleness., morals; ethics (duty); cardinal virtues., merit, worth, desert, excellence, credit; self-control (resolution) [more]; self-denial (temperance) [more]., well-doing; good actions, good behavior; discharge of duty, fulfillment of duty, performance of duty; well-spent life; innocence.
-verbs
be virtuous; practice virtue; do one's duty, fulfill one's duty, perform one's duty, discharge one's duty; redeem one's pledge [more]; act well, act one's part; fight the good fight; acquit oneself well; command one's passions, master one's passions; keep in the right path., set an example, set a good example; be on one's good behavior, be on one's best behavior.
-adjectives
virtuous, good; innocent; meritorious, deserving, worthy, desertful, correct; dutiful, duteous; moral; right, righteous, right-minded; well-intentioned, creditable, laudable, commendable, praiseworthy; above all praise, beyond all praise; excellent, admirable; sterling, pure, noble; whole-souled., exemplary; matchless, peerless; saintly, saint-like; heaven-born, angelic, seraphic, godlike.
-adverbs
virtuously, e merito.
-phrases
esse quam videri bonus malebat [Sallust]; Schonheit vergeht Tugend besteht; "virtue the greatest of all monarchies" [Swift]; virtus laudatur et alget [Juvenal]; virtus
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Antonyms: |
vice |
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