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rightness
English
Etymology
From right +? -ness
Noun
rightness (usually uncountable, plural rightnesses)
- (uncountable) The characteristic of being right; correctness.
- (countable) The result or product of being right; something correct.
- The property of being on, or moving toward, the right.
- 1996, Robert Cummins, Representations, Targets, and Attitudes (page 105)
- I think we are inclined to think the leftness and rightness can be represented because there is a word in our language that means left, and another that means right, and we understand those words.
- 1996, Robert Cummins, Representations, Targets, and Attitudes (page 105)
See also
- leftness
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morality
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)
- (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.
- 1841, Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, ch. 3:
- (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."
- 1912, George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, act 5:
- (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."
- 1781, Samuel Johnson, "Sheffield" in Lives of the Poets:
- (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?
- 1824, Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well, ch. 16:
- (countable) A morality play.
- (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".
- 1953, J. Kemp, "Review of The Claim of Morality by N.H.G. Robinson," The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 12, p. 278:
- (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’.
- 1954, Bernard Mayo, "Ethics and Moral Controversy," The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 14, p. 11:
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
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