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ethicality
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethic |
| Synonyms: | code, ethical code, ethical values, ethicalness, ethics, moral, moral philosophy, morality, principle, principles, set of values, value-system |
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| Main Entry: | morality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethics, honesty |
| Synonyms: | chastity, conduct, decency, ethicality, ethicalness, gentleness, godliness, good habits, goodness, honor, ideals, incorruptibility, incorruption, integrity, justice, manners, moral code, morals, mores, philosophy, principle, principles, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, saintliness, standards, uprightness, virtue, worthiness |
| Notes: | morality is beliefs regarding appropriate behavior, while ethics is the formal study of morality |
| Antonyms: | amorality, badness, corruption, dishonesty, evil, immorality, sinfulness, unethicalness |
| Main Entry: | propriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suitableness, appropriateness |
| Synonyms: | accordance, advisability, agreeableness, appositeness, aptness, becomingness, compatibility, concord, congruity, consonance, convenience, correctness, correspondence, decorum, ethicality, expedience, fitness, harmony, justice, legitimacy, meetness, morality, order, pleasantness, properness, recommendability, rectitude, respectability, rightness, seemliness, suitability |
| Antonyms: | immorality, impropriety, inappropriateness, unsuitableness, wrong |
| Main Entry: | virtue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honor, integrity |
| Synonyms: | advantage, asset, character, charity, chastity, consideration, credit, ethic, ethicality, ethicalness, excellence, faith, faithfulness, fineness, fortitude, generosity, good point, goodness, high-mindedness, hope, ideal, incorruptibility, innocence, justice, kindness, love, merit, morality, plus*, probity, prudence, purity, quality, rectitude, respectability, righteousness, temper, temperance, trustworthiness, uprightness, value, worth, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | dishonor, evil, immorality, vice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ethic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral principle |
| Synonyms: | code, ethical code, ethical values, ethicality, ethicalness, ethics, fairness, integrity, moral, moral philosophy, morality, principle, principles, righteousness, rightfulness, rightness, set of values, value-system, virtue |
| Main Entry: | ethicalness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethic |
| Synonyms: | code, ethical code, ethical values, ethicality, ethics, moral, moral philosophy, morality, principle, principles, set of values, value-system |
| Main Entry: | rightfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethics |
| Synonyms: | belief, conduct, conscience, convention, conventionalities, criteria, decency, ethic, ethicality, ethicalness, ethos, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, natural law, nature, practice, principles, propriety, righteousness, rightness, standard, standards, value |
| Main Entry: | rightness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ethics |
| Synonyms: | belief, conduct, conscience, convention, conventionalities, criteria, decency, ethic, ethicality, ethicalness, ethos, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, natural law, nature, practice, principles, propriety, righteousness, rightfulness, standard, standards, value |
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| Main Entry: | goodness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Manichaean, above par, admirable, advantageous, agathokakological, beneficent, beneficial, benignant, best, better, bosker, capital, cardinal, choice, commendable, costly, crack, edifying, eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious, elect, estimable, eumoirous, excellent, exhimious, exquisite, fair, favorable, fine, first, fresh, genuine, good, good as gold, harmless, high, in fair condition, in good condition, inestimable, inimitable, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, invaluable, nice, of great price, of the first water, of value, par excellence, picked, pleasing, praiseworthy, precious, precious as the apple of the eye, priceless, prickmedainty, prime, profitable, propitious, rare, salutary, satisfactory, select, serviceable, sound, standard, superexcellent, superfine, superlatively good, tidy, tip, unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unobnoxious, unparagoned, unparalleled, up to the mark, useful, valuable, very best, worth its weight in gold
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