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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honor, uprightness |
| Synonyms: | candor, forthrightness, goodness, honestness, honesty, honorableness, incorruptibility, incorruption, principle, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, sincerity, straightforwardness, virtue |
| Antonyms: | corruption, disgrace, dishonesty, dishonor |
| Main Entry: | chastity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celibacy, purity |
| Synonyms: | abstemiousness, abstinence, chasteness, cleanness, continence, decency, demureness, devotion, honor, immaculacy, innocence, integrity, modesty, monogamy, morality, naiveté, restraint, singleness, sinlessness, spotlessness, temperance, uprightness, virginity, virtue |
| Antonyms: | dirtiness, fornication |
| Main Entry: | coherence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | adherence, attachment, bond, cementation, cling, clinging, comprehensibility, concordance, conformity, congruity, connection, consistency, consonance, construction, continuity, correspondence, inseparability, inseparableness, integrity, intelligibility, rationality, relations, solidarity, stickage, tenacity, union, unity |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, incoherence, incongruity, nonsense, unintelligibility |
| Main Entry: | constancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fixedness |
| Synonyms: | abidingness, adherence, allegiance, ardor, attachment, certainty, decision, dependability, determination, devotedness, devotion, doggedness, eagerness, earnestness, endurance, faith, fealty, fidelity, firmness, honesty, honor, integrity, love, loyalty, permanence, perseverance, principle, regularity, resolution, stability, staunchness, steadfastness, steadiness, surety, tenacity, trustiness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, unchangeableness, unfailingness, uniformity, zeal |
| Antonyms: | change, changeableness, fluctuation, inconstancy, instability, irregularity, unsteadiness |
| Main Entry: | credibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | believeableness |
| Synonyms: | believability, chance, integrity, likelihood, plausibility, possibility, probability, prospect, reliability, satisfactoriness, solidity, solidness, soundness, tenability, trustworthiness, validity |
| Notes: | something is credible to the extent that it is worthy of belief, so that credibility is worthiness of belief; credence is an acknowledgment of such worthiness |
| Antonyms: | implausibility, improbability, unreasonableness |
| Main Entry: | duty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral obligation |
| Synonyms: | accountability, accountableness, allegiance, amenability, answerability, burden, call of duty, charge, conscience, deference, devoir, faithfulness, good faith, honesty, integrity, liability, loyalty, obedience, pledge, respect, reverence |
| Antonyms: | faithlessness, inconstancy, treachery |
| Main Entry: | entirety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wholeness, whole |
| Synonyms: | absoluteness, aggregate, all, allness, collectiveness, collectivity, completeness, complex, comprehensiveness, ensemble, entireness, everything, fullness, gross, intactness, integrality, integrity, omneity, omnitude, oneness, perfection, plenitude, sum, sum total, the works, total, totality, undividedness, unity, universality, whole ball of wax, whole bit, whole enchilada, whole nine yards |
| Antonyms: | fraction, incompleteness, part, partiality, section |
| Main Entry: | equity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impartiality |
| Synonyms: | disinterestedness, equitableness, even-handedness, fair play, fair-mindedness, fairness, honesty, integrity, justice, justness, nonpartisanship, piece, reasonableness, rectitude, righteousness, square deal, uprightness |
| Antonyms: | bias, inequity, partiality, unfairness, unjustness |
| Main Entry: | ethics/ethic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral philosophy, values |
| Synonyms: | belief, conduct, conscience, convention, conventionalities, criteria, decency, ethos, goodness, honesty, honor, ideal, imperative, integrity, moral code, morality, mores, natural law, nature, practice, principles, right and wrong, rules of conduct, standard, standards, the Golden Rule |
| Antonyms: | corruption, immorality |
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