| 单词 | morality |
| 释义 | morality (once / 341 pages) n Morality is a concern with what’s right or wrong. Your sense of morality prevents you from cheating on your school exams, on your taxes, or on your spouse. You’ll notice the word moral is in morality. And you might remember reading fairy tales that ended with the phrase, “The moral of the story is…” That’s because stories for children are often intended to instruct kids as to what the good or right decision is in a situation. For example, Cinderella teaches kids that if their foot fits the glass slipper, they can end up marrying a prince. How's that for morality? WORD FAMILYmorality: moralistic, moralities+/amoral: amoralism, amorality, amorally/amoralism: amoralist/amoralist: amoralists/immoral: immorality, immorally/immorality: immoralities/moral: amoral, immoral, moralise, moralism, morality, moralize, morally, morals/moralisation: moralisations/moralise: moralisation, moralised, moralises, moralising/moralism: moralisms, moralist/moralist: moralists/moralistic: moralistically/moralization: moralizations/moralize: moralization, moralized, moralizes, moralizing/moralizing: moralizings USAGE EXAMPLESThey toured the Soviet sphere, and even further, and they projected a certain clean-cut morality and proper decorum, patriotism. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) It did not matter because Allardyce is a traghettatore, and ultimately money trumps what ghosts of morality survive in elite soccer. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) It is a scam admirable for its complexity, if not its morality. New York Times(Dec 21, 2016) 1n concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct Ant|Hypo|Hyper immorality the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct righteousness adhering to moral principles rightnessaccording with conscience or morality conscienceconformity to one's own sense of right conduct good, goodnessmoral excellence or admirableness chastity, sexual morality, virtuemorality with respect to sexual relations impeccabilitythe quality of being exempt from sin or incapable of sinning rectitude, uprightnessrighteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest piety, piousnessrighteousness by virtue of being pious kindnessthe quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic beneficencethe quality of being kind or helpful or generous benignancy, benignity, graciousnessthe quality of being kind and gentle moral excellence, virtue, virtuousnessthe quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong virtuea particular moral excellence saintlinessthe quality of resembling a saint conscientiousnessthe quality of being in accord with the dictates of conscience unconscientiousnessthe quality of being willing to ignore the dictates of conscience summum bonumthe supreme good in which all moral values are included or from which they are derived honor, honour, pureness, puritya woman's virtue or chastity justice, justnessthe quality of being just or fair honorableness, honourablenessthe quality of deserving honor or respect; characterized by honor honor, honourthe quality of being honorable and having a good name honestness, honestythe quality of being honest quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone 2n motivation based on ideas of right and wrong Syn|Hypo|Hyper ethical motive, ethics, morals hedonism the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle conscience, moral sense, scruples, sense of right and wrongmotivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions Christ Within, Inner Light, Light, Light Withina divine presence believed by Quakers to enlighten and guide the soul superego(psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience small voice, voice of conscience, wee small voicean inner voice that judges your behavior sense of duty, sense of shamea motivating awareness of ethical responsibility motivation, motive, need the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior |
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