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| Main Entry: | goodness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decency, excellence |
| Synonyms: | advantage, benefit, benevolence, friendliness, generosity, good will, grace, honesty, honor, integrity, kindheartedness, kindness, mercy, merit, morality, nourishment, probity, quality, rectitude, righteousness, superiority, uprightness, value, virtue, worth, beneficence, ethicality, graciousness, humaneness, kindliness, obligingness, rightness, wholesomeness |
| Antonyms: | evil, indecency, meanness, wickedness |
| Main Entry: | honesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truthfulness, candidness |
| Synonyms: | candor, confidence, conscientiousness, equity, fairness, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, goodness, honor, integrity, loyalty, morality, principle, probity, rectitude, responsibility, right, self-respect, sincerity, soundness, uprightness, veracity, virtue, bluntness, evenhandedness, genuineness, impeccability, incorruptibility, justness, openness, outspokenness, plainness, reputability, scrupulousness, straightforwardness, straightness, trustiness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | artifice, cheating, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, falsehood, fraud, lying, treachery, fraudulence |
| Main Entry: | morality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethics, honesty |
| Synonyms: | chastity, conduct, decency, gentleness, godliness, goodness, honor, ideals, integrity, justice, manners, moral code, morals, mores, philosophy, principle, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, uprightness, virtue, ethicality, ethicalness, good habits, incorruptibility, incorruption, principles, rightness, saintliness, standards, worthiness |
| Notes: | morality is beliefs regarding appropriate behavior, while ethics is the formal study of morality |
| Antonyms: | corruption, dishonesty, evil, amorality, badness, immorality, sinfulness, unethicalness |
| Main Entry: | probity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fairness, honesty |
| Synonyms: | equity, fidelity, goodness, honor, integrity, justice, morality, rectitude, righteousness, sincerity, truthfulness, uprightness, virtue, worth, rightness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | deceit, dishonesty, unfairness |
| Main Entry: | veracity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truth |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, actuality, candor, correctness, credibility, exactness, fact, fairness, fidelity, frankness, gospel*, honesty, honor, impartiality, integrity, precision, probity, real McCoy*, reality, rectitude, sincerity, truism, truthfulness, uprightness, verisimilitude, verity, word*, authenticity, exactitude, genuineness, honest-to-god truth, like it is, openness, rightness, straight stuff, trueness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | falsehood, falsity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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
| Main Entry: | equity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impartiality |
| Synonyms: | fairness, honesty, integrity, justice, piece, rectitude, righteousness, uprightness, disinterestedness, equitableness, even-handedness, fair play, fair-mindedness, justness, nonpartisanship, reasonableness, square deal |
| Antonyms: | bias, inequity, partiality, unfairness, unjustness |
| Main Entry: | integrity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honor, uprightness |
| Synonyms: | candor, goodness, honesty, principle, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, sincerity, virtue, forthrightness, honestness, honorableness, incorruptibility, incorruption, straightforwardness |
| Antonyms: | corruption, disgrace, dishonesty, dishonor |
| Main Entry: | justice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lawfulness, fairness |
| Synonyms: | amends, appeal, authority, authorization, charter, code, compensation, consideration, correction, credo, creed, decree, equity, evenness, hearing, honesty, impartiality, integrity, law, legality, litigation, penalty, recompense, rectitude, redress, reparation, review, right, rule, sanction, sentence, truth, constitutionality, due process, fair play, fair treatment, judicatory, judicature, justness, legal process, legalization, legitimacy, reasonableness, square deal |
| Antonyms: | injustice, lawlessness, partiality, illegality, unethicalness, unfairness |
| Main Entry: | propriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suitableness, appropriateness |
| Synonyms: | advisability, compatibility, concord, congruity, consonance, convenience, correctness, correspondence, decorum, fitness, harmony, justice, morality, order, rectitude, respectability, suitability, accordance, agreeableness, appositeness, aptness, becomingness, ethicality, expedience, legitimacy, meetness, pleasantness, properness, recommendability, rightness, seemliness |
| Antonyms: | impropriety, wrong, immorality, inappropriateness, unsuitableness |
| Main Entry: | truth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reality, validity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, actuality, axiom, case, certainty, correctness, dope*, exactness, fact, facts, gospel*, gospel truth*, infallibility, inside track*, maxim, naked truth*, nitty-gritty*, perfection, picture, precision, principle, rectitude, scoop, score, truism, truthfulness, veracity, verisimilitude, verity, authenticity, exactitude, factualism, factuality, factualness, genuineness, honest truth, legitimacy, plain talk, rightness, trueness, unvarnished truth, whole story |
| Antonyms: | falsehood, invention, untruth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | righteousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | justice |
| Synonyms: | fairness, goodness, honor, rectitude, respectability, uprightness, virtue, justness |
| Main Entry: | character |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | integrity |
| Synonyms: | courage, fame, honor, intelligence, mind, name, place, position, rank, rectitude, report, reputation, standing, station, status, uprightness, rep, repute |
| Main Entry: | good |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | morality |
| Synonyms: | class, dignity, excellence, ideal, merit, prerogative, probity, quality, rectitude, right, righteousness, straight, uprightness, value, virtue, worth |
| Antonyms: | evil, sin, wickedness, immorality |
| Main Entry: | honor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | integrity |
| Synonyms: | character, chastity, courage, decency, fairness, goodness, honesty, innocence, modesty, morality, morals, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtue, honestness, incorruption, incorruptness, principles, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | blemish, disgrace, dishonor, stigma, ill repute |
| Main Entry: | order |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lawfulness |
| Synonyms: | calm, control, decorum, discipline, goodness, integrity, law, niceness, peace, probity, propriety, quiet, rectitude, suitability, tranquility, uprightness, decorousness, law and order, orderliness, peacefulness, properness, rightness, seemliness |
| Antonyms: | lawlessness, liberty, license |
| 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: | propriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good manners |
| Synonyms: | amenities, breeding, correctness, courtesy, decency, decorum, delicacy, dignity, etiquette, modesty, mores*, politeness, protocol, punctilio, rectitude, refinement, respectability, rules of conduct, accepted conduct, civilities, good behavior, good form, niceties, politesse, seemliness, social conventions, social grace, the done thing |
| Antonyms: | bad manners, impropriety, misbehavior, misconduct |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | right |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | justice, morality |
| Synonyms: | correctness, emancipation, equity, freedom, good, goodness, honor, independence, integrity, legality, liberty, propriety, reason, rectitude, righteousness, straight, truth, uprightness, virtue, enfranchisement, lawfulness, properness, rightness |
| Antonyms: | corruption, injustice, wrong, immorality, unfairness, unjustness |
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