Meaning | concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct. |
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Attributes | immoral | deliberately violating / violating accepted principles of right and wrong |
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impure | (used of persons or behaviors) immoral or obscene |
moral | concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles |
pure | (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults |
Narrower | conscience | conformity to one's own sense of right conduct |
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good, goodness | moral excellence or admirableness |
righteousness | adhering to moral principles |
rightness | according with conscience or morality |
virtue, chastity, sexual morality | morality with respect to sexual relations |
Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
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Opposite | immorality | The quality of not being in accord / accord with standards of right or good conduct |
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Spanish | moralidad |
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Catalan | moralitat |
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Adjectives | moral | concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles |
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moralistic | narrowly and conventionally moral |