| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | traditional customs |
| Synonyms: | attitude, codes, established ways, etiquette, formalities, manners, morals, policies, practices, principles, protocol, rites, rituals, routines, rules, social conduct, standards, way of life |
| Main Entry: | culture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ideas, values of a people |
| Synonyms: | arts and sciences, civilization, convention, customs, development, ethnology, folklore, folkways, grounding, habit, humanism, knowledge, lifestyle, mores, society, the arts, way of life |
| Notes: | culture is acquired by study and application; cultivation is developed by training and exposure |
| Main Entry: | custom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ritual, traditional action |
| Synonyms: | attitude, canon, ceremony, character, convention, conventionalism, customariness, design, dictates, established way, etiquette, fashion, folkways, form, formality, inheritence, manner, matter of course, method, mode, mold, mores, observance, observation, pattern, performance, policy, practice, praxis, precedent, precept, rite, routine, rule, second nature, style, system, taste, type, unwritten law, unwritten rule, usage, use, vogue, way |
| Notes: | costume and custom were actually two forms of the same Latin root consuetudinem 'habit, custom,' with costume first meaning 'manners and customs belonging to a particular time and place' |
| Antonyms: | departure, deviation |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | etiquette |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manners, politeness |
| Synonyms: | amenities, civility, code, convention, courtesy, customs, decency, decorum, deportment, dignity, form, formalities, good behavior, mores, p's and q's, politesse, proper behavior, propriety, protocol, rules, seemliness, social graces, suavities, usage |
| Antonyms: | bad manners |
| Main Entry: | fashion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | attitude, manner |
| Synonyms: | convention, custom, demeanor, device, etiquette, form, formality, formula, guise, method, mode, modus operandi, mores, observance, order, practice, precedent, prescription, prevalence, procedure, sort, style, system, technique, tendency, tone, trend, usage, vein, vogue, way |
| Main Entry: | manners |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | polite, refined social behavior |
| Synonyms: | amenities, bearing, behavior, breeding, carriage, ceremony, civilities, comportment, conduct, courtesy, culture, decorum, demeanor, deportment, dignity, elegance, etiquette, formalities, good breeding, good form, mien, mores, p's and q's, polish, politeness, politesse, propriety, protocol, refinement, social graces, sophistication, taste, urbanity |
| Notes: | manner means a way of acting or behaving or how something is done; manners is socially correct behavior; a manor is the landed estate of a lord |
| 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: | morals |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal principles, standards |
| Synonyms: | behavior, beliefs, conduct, customs, dogmas, ethic, ethics, habits, ideals, integrity, manners, morality, mores, policies, scruples |
| Antonyms: | amorality, disrespectability, immorality, indecency, unethicalness |