different between morale vs morality

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French moral.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?????l/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /m???æl/
• Rhymes: -æl

Noun

morale (countable and uncountable, plural morales)

1. The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others.

   After the layoffs morale was at an all time low, they were so dispirited nothing was getting done.

   Morale is an important quality in soldiers. With good morale they'll charge into a hail of bullets; without it they won't even cross a street.

   • 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[1]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):

     Proponents of the race — notably Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Mary Wittenberg, director of the marathon — said the event would provide a needed morale boost, as well as an economic one.

Synonyms

• esprit de corps

Descendants

• ? Welsh: morâl

Translations

Anagrams

• Lamore, Melora, Merola

Esperanto

Etymology

From moralo +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?rale/
• Hyphenation: mo?ra?le
• Rhymes: -ale

Adverb

morale

1. morally

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.?al/

Noun

morale f (plural morales)

1. Ethics, morality

Adjective

morale

1. feminine singular of moral

Further reading

• “morale” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From Latin m?r?lem, form of m?r?lis, derived from m?s (“custom, way; law”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?ra.le/
• Hyphenation: mo?rà?le

Adjective

morale (plural morali)

1. moral

Noun

morale f (plural morali)

1. morals
2. moral philosophy

morale m (plural morali)

1. morale

Related terms

• moralista
• moralistico
• moralità
• moralizzare
• moralizzatore
• moralmente

Anagrams

• malore
• molare
• molerà

Latin

Adjective

m?r?le

1. nominative neuter singular of m?r?lis
2. accusative neuter singular of m?r?lis
3. vocative neuter singular of m?r?lis

References

• morale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Polish

Etymology

From English morale, from French moral, from Middle French moral, from Old French moral, from Latin m?r?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??ra.l?/

Noun

morale n (indeclinable)

1. morale (capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal)
2. morals

Noun

morale

1. locative singular of mora?
2. vocative singular of mora?

Further reading

• morale in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• morale in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman moralité, Middle French moralité, from Late Latin m?r?lit?s (“manner, characteristic, character”), from Latin m?r?lis (“relating to manners or morals”), from m?s (“manner, custom”). equivalent to moral +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m???æl?ti/
• Rhymes: -æl?ti

Noun

morality (countable and uncountable, plural moralities)

1. (uncountable) Recognition of the distinction between good and evil or between right and wrong; respect for and obedience to the rules of right conduct; the mental disposition or characteristic of behaving in a manner intended to produce morally good results.
   • 1841, Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, ch. 3:

     Without morality, intellect were impossible for him; a thoroughly immoral man could not know anything at all! To know a thing, what we can call knowing, a man must first love the thing, sympathize with it: that is, be virtuously related to it.

   • 1911, G. K. Chesterton, Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens, ch. 16:

     Science and art without morality are not dangerous in the sense commonly supposed. They are not dangerous like a fire, but dangerous like a fog.

   • 1965, "King Moves North," Time, 30 Apr.:

     It may be true that you cannot legislate morality, but behavior can be regulated.

2. (countable) A set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct.
   • 1912, George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, act 5:

     I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle class morality.

   • 1917, William MacLeod Raine. The Yukon Trail, ch. 14:

     He smiled a little. "Morality is the average conduct of the average man at a given time and place. It is based on custom and expediency."

3. (countable) A set of personal guiding principles for conduct or a general notion of how to behave, whether respectable or not.
   • 1781, Samuel Johnson, "Sheffield" in Lives of the Poets:

     His morality was such as naturally proceeds from loose opinions.

   • 1994, "Man Convicted of Murder in '92 Bludgeoning," San Jose Mercury News, 4 Nov., p. 2B:

     Deputy District Attorney Bill Tingle called Jones "the devil's right-hand man" and said he should be punished for his "atrocious morality."

4. (countable, archaic) A lesson or pronouncement which contains advice about proper behavior.
   • 1824, Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well, ch. 16:

     "She had done her duty"—"she left the matter to them that had a charge anent such things"—and "Providence would bring the mystery to light in his own fitting time"—such were the moralities with which the good dame consoled herself.

   • 1882, William Makepeace Thackeray, "Vanitas Vanitatum" in Ballads, p. 195:

     What mean these stale moralities,

     Sir Preacher, from your desk you mumble?

5. (countable) A morality play.
6. (uncountable, rare) Moral philosophy, the branch of philosophy which studies the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.
   • 1953, J. Kemp, "Review of The Claim of Morality by N.H.G. Robinson," The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 12, p. 278:

     Robinson sums up the conclusion of the first part of his book as being "that the task of the moralist is to set in their proper relation to one another the three different types of moral judgment . . . and so reveal the field of morality as a single self-coherent system".

7. (countable, rare) A particular theory concerning the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.
   • 1954, Bernard Mayo, "Ethics and Moral Controversy," The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 14, p. 11:

     Hume's morality which ‘implies some sentiment common to all mankind’; Kant's morality for all rational beings; Butler's morality with its presupposition of ‘uniformity of conscience’.

Usage notes

• Although the terms morality and ethics may sometimes be used interchangeably, philosophical ethicists often distinguish them, using morality and its related terms to refer to actual, real-world beliefs and practices concerning proper conduct, and using ethics to refer to theories and conceptual studies relating to good and evil and right and wrong. In this vein, the American philosopher Brand Blanshard wrote concerning his friend, the eminent British ethicist G. E. Moore: "We often discussed ethics, but seldom morals. . . . He was a master in ethical theory, but did not conceive himself as specially qualified to pass opinions on politics or social issues."

Synonyms

• (recognition of / obedience to the rules of right conduct): decency, rectitude, righteousness, uprightness, virtuousness
• (personal guiding principles): morals
• (set of customs, traditions, rules of conduct): conventions, morals, mores
• (lesson or pronouncement which contains advice): homily
• (branch of philosophy): ethics, moral philosophy
• (particular theory concerning the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, etc.): ethics, moral philosophy

Antonyms

• (recognition of / obedience to the rules of right conduct): amorality, immorality

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• morality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• morality in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• morality at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

Anagrams

• molarity