Immorality vs. Morality

(uncountable) The state or quality of being immoral; vice.

(countable) An immoral act or practice.

The state or quality of being immoral; vice.

Example: ‘The root of all immorality.’;

An immoral act or practice.

Example: ‘Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them.’;

the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct;

Example: ‘the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction’;

morally objectionable behavior

Immorality is the violation of moral laws, norms or standards. It refers to an agent doing or thinking something they know or believe to be wrong.

(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.

(countable) A set of social rules, customs, traditions, beliefs, or practices which specify proper, acceptable forms of conduct.

(countable) A set of personal guiding principles for conduct or a general notion of how to behave, whether respectable or not.

A lesson or pronouncement which contains advice about proper behavior.

Moral philosophy, the branch of philosophy which studies the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.

A particular theory concerning the grounds and nature of rightness, wrongness, good, and evil.

The relation of conformity or nonconformity to the moral standard or rule; quality of an intention, a character, an action, a principle, or a sentiment, when tried by the standard of right.

Example: ‘The morality of an action is founded in the freedom of that principle, by virtue of which it is in the agent's power, having all things ready and requisite to the performance of an action, either to perform or not perform it.’;

The quality of an action which renders it good; the conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right.

Example: ‘Of moralitee he was the flower.’; ‘I am bold to think that morality is capable of demonstration.’;

The doctrines or rules of moral duties, or the duties of men in their social character; ethics.

Example: ‘The end of morality is to procure the affections to obey reason, and not to invade it.’; ‘The system of morality to be gathered out of . . . ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.’;

The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life; conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.

A kind of allegorical play, so termed because it consisted of discourses in praise of morality between actors representing such characters as Charity, Faith, Death, Vice, etc. Such plays were occasionally exhibited as late as the reign of Henry VIII.

Intent; meaning; moral.

Example: ‘Taketh the morality thereof, good men.’;

concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct

motivation based on ideas of right and wrong

Morality (from Latin: moralitas, lit. 'manner, character, proper behavior') is the differentiation of intentions, decisions and actions between those that are distinguished as proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong). Morality can be a body of standards or principles derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion or culture, or it can derive from a standard that a person believes should be universal.