Meaning | The quality of not being in accord / accord with standards of right or good conduct. |
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Example | "the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction" |
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Narrower | anomie, anomy | lack of moral standards in a society |
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corruptibility | The capability of being corrupted |
corruption, degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction | Moral perversion |
evil, evilness | The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice |
licentiousness, wantonness | The quality of being lewd and lascivious |
unrighteousness | failure to adhere to moral principles |
wrongness | contrary to conscience or morality |
Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
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Opposite | morality | concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong |
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Spanish | inmoralidad |
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Catalan | immoralitat |
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Adjectives | immoral | deliberately violating / violating accepted principles of right and wrong |
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immoral | not adhering to ethical or moral principles |