moralitymo‧ral‧i‧ty /məˈræləti/ ●○○ noun [uncountable] 
sexual moralitypublic/private/personal morality the decline in standards of personal morality The authorities are protectors of public morality.conventional/traditional morality a lack of concern for conventional morality2the degree to which something is right or acceptable OPP immoralitymorality of a discussion on the morality of abortion
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Anyone who carried out such an attack obviously has no morality whatsoever.
- Christian morality
- I think we should question the morality of turning away refugees.
- Monogamy and sexual morality are extremely important to conservatives in the age of AIDS.
- Some leaders have blamed television for the decline in standards of morality.
- Victorian commentators were very concerned about public morality generally.
- But a small, growing school of Catholic intellectuals argue that natural theology actually supports the morality of homosexual unions.
- Gilligan sees this as a morality of responsibility that stands apart from the morality of rights underlying Kohlberg's conception.
- He would learn morality by observing people's reactions when he performed unsocial actions; but he would never be punished.
- Men had all the power in the state and therefore made both its laws and its morality.
- Prosperity, tranquility, honesty, morality, decency, normality and on-time airline arrivals do not make news.
- The double standard of morality relied upon this separation between the public and the private.
- This implies that there is a principle apart from morality on which morality itself can be founded.
- Yet we have already noted how, in terms of poetic justice for instance, fabliau morality is often conventional in precisely these terms.
THESAURUS
all of the basic ideas that a person or group of people has about what is morally good and right: · The man has no morals at all.· He felt that society's morals were declining, as shown by increases in public drunkenness and violence.
ideas about what is right and wrong, and what is acceptable behaviour – used when talking about whether it is right to do a particular thing, or when talking about moral standards generally: · Several advisers had very different views on the morality of the action (=on whether it was morally right).· They wanted to ban the film, on the grounds of protecting public morality.
moral rules for deciding what is right and wrong – often used about this as a subject that people study and discuss: · Doctors must follow a strict code of ethics.· I'm not sure about the ethics of using human embryos for research (=I'm not sure that it is morally right).
moral rules or beliefs about what is right and wrong, which make you decide what you should and should not do: · He stuck to his principles and spoke out against injustice, despite the risks.· It's against their principles to kill any living thing.
your ideas about what is important in life: · During the 1960s, many young people rejected their parents' values.· He stressed the importance of spiritual values.
beliefs about what is right and wrong that prevent you from doing bad things: · She had no scruples about listening to their private conversation.· My scruples would not allow me to interfere in their relationship.
Longman Language Activatorstandards of good and bad behaviour the basic ideas that a person or a society has about what is morally good and right: · He only knew the morals, customs and beliefs of his mountain village.· the influence of rock music on the minds and morals of young people· Harry doesn't seem to have any morals at all.
the idea or understanding that some things are morally good and some or morally bad: · They're only children, but they do know the difference between right and wrong.· Do we naturally have a sense of right and wrong, or are we taught it?
ideas about what is right and what is wrong, or the degree to which something is morally acceptable: · Victorian commentators were very concerned about public morality generally.· I think we should question the morality of turning away refugees.· Anyone who carried out such an attack obviously has no morality whatsoever.
a system of rules about what is morally right or wrong, especially rules followed by a religious group or people in a particular profession: · What are the differences between Muslim and Christian ethics?· medical ethicscode of ethics (=system of ethics): · As a therapist he has to follow a very strict code of ethics.
personal rules of behaviour, based on an idea of what is morally good and right: · He was a good man who kept up the very highest standards throughout his life.· There has been a serious decline in moral standards among the young people of today.
the ideas that a person or group has about what things are good, right, and important in life: · As a child he had admired his father's values and lifestyle.· a black identity based on black culture and black values· She rejected the traditional values of her society.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY sexual morality the decline in standards of personal morality The authorities are protectors of public morality. a lack of concern for conventional moralityCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
sexual morality the decline in standards of personal morality The authorities are protectors of public morality. a lack of concern for conventional morality· Individual response to the altered conditions was, as might be expected, conditioned by conventional morality.· Freed from the trappings of conventional morality, Van Ness is at liberty to invent his own.· This feeling has nothing to do with conventional views about conduct, or conventional morality, or ethics.· These urban comedies portrayed a new moral code in opposition to conventional morality.
· With this new concept of morality comes a new notion of the hero.· He represents the { new morality } founded on the natural goodness of man; he is tolerant and humane.
· I choose that name to show its connection to a parallel ideal of personal morality.· This suggests that the privatization of personal morality is well on its way.· Prior to the 1830s, personal morality had not been seen as necessary for political eminence.· She found herself agreeing with the historian's distaste for Mills' personal morality.· Religion, politics, personal and social morality and fantasy are all media in which he regularly operates.
· The limits of that practice of obedience must therefore be constituted by the boundaries of that political morality.· This is because a commitment to representative government and loyalty to democratic institutions are themselves fundamental constituents of our collective political morality.· How would the judges discover this political morality?· Of course they will, but in hard cases judges must make controversial judgments of political morality whichever conception of law they hold.· The accepted standards of political morality differed from our own; evidence is hard to come by and difficult to interpret.· There can be no political morality without prudence; that is, without consideration of the political consequences of seemingly moral action.· The political morality which underlies the legal order is not exhausted by our attachment to democratic government.
· Civic institutions were therefore the public expression of private morality.· In direct criticism of Wolfenden, he argues that one can not make a simple distinction between public and private morality.· This is where the recent history of law's withdrawal from the regulation of private morality provides a useful perspective.· They then experienced little difficulty in deciding of what private morality consisted.
· In direct criticism of Wolfenden, he argues that one can not make a simple distinction between public and private morality.· The Town Council was then, as now, very strict in the matter of public morality.· I say this for Depardieu's own good-and in the interests of public morality.· In the areas it controls, any deviation from the public morality it tolerates is ruthlessly punished.
· The principles of good faith reflect professional ethics and general social morality.· Indeed, social morality leaders came to believe that earlier marriages would discourage resort to prostitution.· They evolved their own codes of conduct and social morality, inpart modelled on those of the warrior class.· Religion, politics, personal and social morality and fantasy are all media in which he regularly operates.
· They deny personal responsibility, disparage traditional morality, denigrate religion, and promote hostility toward the family's way of life.
NOUN· The problem is that, as with any morality tale, this is a very partial truth.· No wonder we prefer the simplicity of morality tales with comforting villains.· Arthurian legends or the morality tales of life under capitalism were not enough.
WORD FAMILYnounmoralmoralsmorality ≠ immoralitymoralistamoralityadjectivemoral ≠ immoralamoralmoralisticverbmoralizeadverbmorally ≠ immorally
1beliefs or ideas about what is right and wrong and about how people should behave: sexual moralitypublic/private/personal morality the decline in standards of personal morality The authorities are protectors of public morality.conventional/traditional morality a lack of concern for conventional morality2the degree to which something is right or acceptable OPP immoralitymorality of a discussion on the morality of abortion