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Meaning of MORALITY

Pronunciation:  mu'ralitee

WordNet Dictionary
  1. [n]  concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct
  2. [n]  motivation based on ideas of right and wrong

MORALITY is a 8 letter word that starts with M.


 Synonyms: ethical motive, ethics, morals
 Antonyms: immorality
 See Also: chastity, Christ Within, conscience, conscience, good, goodness, hedonism, Inner Light, Light, Light Within, moral sense, motivation, motive, need, quality, righteousness, rightness, scruples, sense of right and wrong, sexual morality, virtue



Webster's 1913 Dictionary
\Mo*ral"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Moralities}. [L. moralitas: cf.
F. moralit['e].]
1. The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral
   standard of right.

         The morality of an action is founded in the freedom
         of that principle, by virtue of which it is in the
         agent's power, having all things ready and requisite
         to the performance of an action, either to perform
         or not perform it.                    --South.

   conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.

         Of moralitee he was the flower.       --Chaucer.

         I am bold to think that morality is capable of
         demonstration.                        --Locke.

   men in their social character; ethics.

         The end of morality is to procure the affections to

         The system of morality to be gathered out of . . .
         ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in
         the gospel.                           --Swift.

4. The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life;
   admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.

5. A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted
   of discourses in praise of morality between actors
   representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death,
   Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late
   as the reign of Henry VIII. --Strutt.

6. Intent; meaning; moral. [Obs.]

         Taketh the morality thereof, good men. --Chaucer.

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