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ethics - 15 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | ethics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | morality |
| Synonyms: | belief, conduct, conscience, convention, decency, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, nature, practice, standard, value, conventionalities, criteria, ethic, ethos, natural law, principles, standards |
| Notes: | morality is beliefs regarding appropriate behavior, while ethics is the formal study of morality |
| Main Entry: | ethics/ethic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral philosophy, values |
| Synonyms: | belief, conduct, conscience, convention, decency, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, nature, practice, rules of conduct, standard, conventionalities, criteria, ethos, natural law, principles, right and wrong, standards, the Golden Rule |
| Antonyms: | corruption, immorality |
| Main Entry: | behavior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manner of conducting oneself |
| Synonyms: | act, action, address, air, attitude, bag*, bearing, carriage, code, comportment, conduct, convention, course, dealings, decency, decorum, deed, delivery, demeanor, deportment, ethics, etiquette, expression, form, front, guise, habits, management, mien, mode, morals, nature, observance, performance, practice, presence, propriety, ritual, role, routine, savoir-faire, seemliness, social graces, speech, style, tact, talk, taste, tenue, tone, way, way of life, ways, what's done |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dignity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excellence, nobility |
| Synonyms: | address, cachet, character, consequence, culture, decency, decorum, distinction, elevation, eminence, ethics, etiquette, glory, grace, grandeur, gravity, greatness, hauteur, honor, importance, majesty, merit, morality, perfection, poise, prestige, propriety, quality, rank, regard, renown, respectability, self-respect, significance, solemnity, splendor, standing, state, station, stature, status, virtue, worth, courtliness, loftiness, nobleness, seemliness, stateliness, sublimity, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | lowliness |
| Main Entry: | ideals |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral beliefs |
| Synonyms: | ethics, values, goals, principles, standards |
| Main Entry: | values |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | principles |
| Synonyms: | attitude, character, code, conduct, conscience, ethics, ideals, integrity, morals, mores, beliefs, scruples, sense of duty, sense of honor, standards |
| Main Entry: | moral philosophy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral beliefs |
| Synonyms: | ethics, ethical philosophy, moral science |
| Main Entry: | value judgment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assessment about values |
| Synonyms: | bias, ethics, intuition, morals, valuation, evaluative criticism, stocktaking, subjective evaluation |
| Main Entry: | standard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guideline, principle |
| Synonyms: | archetype, average, axiom, barometer, beau ideal, belief, benchmark, canon, code, criterion, ethics, example, exemplar, fundamental, gauge, grade, guide, ideal, ideals, law, mean, measure, median, mirror, model, morals, norm, par, paradigm, pattern, requirement, rule, rule of thumb*, sample, specification, test, touchstone, type, yardstick |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | code |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | law, rule |
| Synonyms: | canon, charter, constitution, convention, custom, digest, discipline, ethics, etiquette, manners, maxim, method, regulation, system, codex |
| Main Entry: | morals |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal principles, standards |
| Synonyms: | behavior, conduct, customs, ethics, ideals, integrity, manners, morality, mores, beliefs, dogmas, ethic, habits, policies, scruples |
| Antonyms: | indecency, amorality, disrespectability, immorality, unethicalness |
| Main Entry: | principle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | law, standard |
| Synonyms: | assumption, axiom, basis, canon, convention, criterion, dictum, doctrine, dogma, form, formula, foundation, fundamental, ground, maxim, origin, postulate, precept, prescript, proposition, regulation, rule, source, theorem, truth, usage, verity, ethic, golden rule, principium |
| Main Entry: | principle/principles |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, morality; morals |
| Synonyms: | attitude, character, code, conduct, conscience, credo, ethics, faith, ideals, integrity, opinion, policy, probity, rectitude, system, teaching, tenet, uprightness, ethic, scruples, sense of duty, sense of honor |
| Antonyms: | immorality, unethicalness |
| Main Entry: | tradition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | established practice |
| Synonyms: | attitude, belief, birthright, conclusion, convention, culture, custom, customs, ethics, fable, folklore, form, habit, heritage, idea, inheritance, institution, law, legend, lore, mores, myth, mythology, opinion, practice, praxis, ritual, unwritten law, usage, wisdom, ethic, mythos |
| Main Entry: | virtue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honor, integrity |
| Synonyms: | advantage, asset, character, charity, chastity, consideration, credit, excellence, faith, faithfulness, fortitude, generosity, goodness, hope, ideal, innocence, justice, kindness, love, merit, morality, plus*, probity, prudence, purity, quality, rectitude, respectability, righteousness, temper, temperance, uprightness, value, worth, ethic, ethicality, ethicalness, fineness, good point, high-mindedness, incorruptibility, trustworthiness, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | dishonor, evil, vice, immorality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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