non-moraladj.
/nɒnˈmɒrəl/, /nɒnˈmɒrl̩/, U.S. /nɑnˈmɔr(ə)l/ Not moral; having no moral sense or standards; not concerned with morality. Cf. amoral adj.Sometimes used in contradistinction to immoral adj.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > immorality > [adjective]
unlawfula1387
unprincipled1644
immoral1660
unmoralized1668
non-moral1858
moralless1869
unethic1871
unethical1871
messy1914
society > morality > moral evil > [adjective] > immoral or unethical
unlawfula1387
viciousc1386
immoral1660
unmoralized1668
non-moral1858
unethic1871
unethical1871
messy1914
1858 Southern Literary Messenger 27 278/1 To be pronounced in their aggregate non-moral or neccessary because that aggregate is seen to obey a definite numerical law.
1886 A. C. Swinburne Misc. 66 Keats.., the most absolutely non-moral of all serious writers.
1891 T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer III. viii. 352 Those who insist that art, while it is not immoral, is non-moral.
1924 W. B. Selbie Psychol. Relig. 244 It is one of the problems of religion how to maintain a due balance between a morbid sense of guilt on the one hand and a non-moral religious emotionalism on the other.
1953 E. Wilkins & E. Kaiser tr. R. Musil Man without Qualities I. xl. 183 Everything that is colourless, odourless, tasteless, imponderable and non-moral, like water, air, space, money and the passing of time, is in reality what is most important.
1992 Mind 101 199 Some moral and nonmoral value judgments have truth values, and thereby condition our freedom as empirical judgments do.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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