NOUN | attribute | virtue, virtuousness, moral excellence | the quality of doing what is right and avoiding / avoiding what is wrong |
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attribute | virtue, merit | any admirable quality or attribute | |
attribute | virtue, chastity, sexual morality | morality with respect to sexual relations | |
attribute | virtue | a particular moral excellence |
Sounds | ver'chuw | |
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Rhymes | chew ... statue: 6 rhymes with chuw... |
Meaning | The quality of doing what is right and avoiding / avoiding what is wrong. | |
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Synonyms | virtuousness, moral excellence | |
Broader | good, goodness | moral excellence or admirableness |
Spanish | excelencia, virtud | |
Catalan | excel·lència, virtut | |
Adjectives | virtuous | morally excellent |
Meaning | Any admirable quality or attribute. | |
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Synonym | merit | |
Broader | worth | The quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful |
Opposite | demerit, fault | The quality of being inadequate / inadequate or falling ... / falling short of perfection / perfection |
Spanish | mérito, virtud | |
Catalan | mèrit, virtut |
Meaning | morality with respect to sexual relations. | |
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Synonyms | chastity, sexual morality | |
Attributes | chaste | morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse) |
unchaste | not chaste | |
Narrower | honor, honour, purity, pureness | A woman's virtue or chastity |
Broader | morality | concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong |
Spanish | castidad, moral sexual, pudor, pureza, virtud | |
Catalan | castedat, moral sexual, puresa, virtut | |
Adjectives | virtuous | in a state of sexual virginity |
Meaning | A particular moral excellence. | |
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Narrower | cardinal virtue | One of the seven preeminent virtues |
Broader | good, goodness | moral excellence or admirableness |
Spanish | virtud | |
Catalan | virtut | |
Adjectives | virtuous | morally excellent |
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