ethicalityn.
/ˌɛθᵻˈkalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌɛθəˈkælədi/ 1. The quality or state of being ethical (in various senses). Cf. earlier ethicalness n.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > moral philosophy > [noun] > ethical quality
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1865 Era 22 Oct. 10/1 How much of high ethicality is to be met with!
1890 J. H. Stirling Philos. & Theol. v. 89 Ethicality is the right doing according to the conscience of the State, of the community, while morality is right doing according to the conscience of the individual.
1934 Punch 19 Sept. 314/3 When it came to the discussions of what one team was going to do to another I was unable to distribute marks for ethicality quite so freely.
1991 T. Mitchell Blood Sport 2 Those who cheer or insult the matadors, those who enter spontaneously into the passion of the spectacle—never bothering to inquire into its nature, never feeling the need to question its ethicality.
2. An ethical quality, principle, or viewpoint.
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a1897 W. Wallace Lect. Nat. Theol. (1898) xii. 201 A nature-religion is only an ethical religion of a rather less organized ethicality than is presupposed in other religions.
1899 R. S. Foster Sin 130 We do not pretend that nothing good and beautiful remains in humanity—..no delicate and Godlike ethicalities and sensibilities.
1965 M. Bradbury Stepping Westward vii. 333 Froelich..was a man beyond outmoded ethicalities.
2006 H. Seckinelgin Environment & Internat. Politics Introd. 12 The next layer..articulates a different ethicality.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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