Entry Word: morality

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 conduct that conforms to an accepted standard of right and wrong <the candidate claimed to be the best choice because of his unswerving morality>

Synonyms character, decency, goodness, honesty, integrity, probity, rectitude, righteousness, uprightness, virtue, virtuousness

Related Words high-mindedness, honor, incorruptibility; appropriateness, correctness, decorousness, decorum, etiquette, fitness, propriety, seemliness; ethics, morals

Near Antonyms impropriety, indecency, indiscretion; debauchery, degeneracy, degradation, depravity, perversion; crookedness, dishonesty, underhandedness, unscrupulousness; lowness, meanness, viciousness, vileness; corruption, sin

Antonyms badness, evil, immorality, wickedness

2 the code of good conduct for an individual or group <the morality that members of the Mafia are expected to adhere to—or suffer the consequences> — see ethics