- [uncountable] principles relating to right and wrong or good and bad behaviour
- matters of public/private morality
- Standards of morality seem to be dropping.
Extra ExamplesTopics Personal qualitiesc1- She criticized politicians' standards of personal morality.
- Should governments be legislating morality?
- efforts to strengthen traditional morality
- people who wish to impose their morality on other people
- A stable society relies on both private and public morality.
- Do you think standards of morality are falling?
- He seems to have no personal morality at all.
- Ideas of traditional morality are being questioned all the time.
- Sexual morality should be considered a private matter.
- The church tried to uphold public morality by censoring books and magazines.
- Whatever her personal morality, she has no right to judge others.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- conventional
- traditional
- strict
- …
- legislate
- question
- impose
- …
- be based on something
- standards of morality
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- [uncountable] the degree to which something is right or wrong, good or bad, etc. according to moral principles
- There is a continuing debate on the morality of abortion.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- conventional
- traditional
- strict
- …
- legislate
- question
- impose
- …
- be based on something
- standards of morality
- [uncountable, countable] a system of moral principles followed by a particular group of people synonym ethics compare immoralityOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- conventional
- traditional
- strict
- …
- legislate
- question
- impose
- …
- be based on something
- standards of morality
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French moralite or late Latin moralitas, from Latin moralis, from mos, mor- ‘custom’, (plural) mores ‘morals’.
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