morality
noun
mo·ral·i·ty
mə-ˈra-lə-tē 
mȯ-
plural moralities
1
a
: a moral discourse, statement, or lesson
ended his lecture with a trite morality
b
: a literary or other imaginative work teaching a moral lesson
"Aesop's Fables" is famous as a morality.
2
a
: a doctrine or system of moral conduct
the basic law which an adequate morality ought to state—
Marjorie Grene
Marjorie Grene
b
moralities plural
: particular moral principles or rules of conduct
we were all brought up on one of these moralities—Psychiatry
Psychiatry3
: conformity to ideals of right human conduct
admitted the expediency of the law but questioned its morality
4
: moral conduct : virtue
morality today involves a responsible relationship toward the laws of the natural world—P. B. Sears
P. B. SearsSynonyms
Examples of morality in a Sentence
The group is calling for a return to traditional morality.
two groups with clashing moralities
The decision may be legally justified, but I question its morality.
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The story of Pachinko is really the story of Sunja, whose strong sense of morality rarely wavers.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
The film’s ending trades the strict morality of Sophocles for 21st century hedonism, and Choi brilliantly sells Dae-su’s final decision to continue living with his sins.
—Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
Combining these stats with the numbers of birds found injured and excluded from the 2014 study of bird morality, the researchers conservatively estimate that at about 100 million additional birds are being killed by window strikes each year in the U.S..
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2024
But Rose’s dramatic and brutal home-plate wipeout into Fosse, which was blamed for derailing the catcher’s still productive career, was a nationwide spectacle, and its morality was hotly debated in the days and weeks to come.
—Brandon Harris, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
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Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
The film’s ending trades the strict morality of Sophocles for 21st century hedonism, and Choi brilliantly sells Dae-su’s final decision to continue living with his sins.
—Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
Combining these stats with the numbers of birds found injured and excluded from the 2014 study of bird morality, the researchers conservatively estimate that at about 100 million additional birds are being killed by window strikes each year in the U.S..
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 7 Aug. 2024
But Rose’s dramatic and brutal home-plate wipeout into Fosse, which was blamed for derailing the catcher’s still productive career, was a nationwide spectacle, and its morality was hotly debated in the days and weeks to come.
—Brandon Harris, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
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morality
noun
mo·ral·i·ty
mə-ˈral-ət-ē
plural moralities
1
: moral quality : virtue
judge the morality of an action
2
: a system of moral rules
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