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Immorality definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IMMORAL'ITY, n. Any act or practice which contravenes the divine commands or the social duties. Injustice,dishonesty, fraud, slander, profaneness, gaming, intemperance, lewdness, are immoralities. All crimes are immoralities; but crime expresses more than immorality.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct; "the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction" [ant: morality]
2: morally objectionable behavior [syn: evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1566 1. the quality or state of being immoral; especially unchastity 2. an immoral act or practice

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Immorality Im`mo*ral"i*ty, n.; pl. Immoralities. [Cf. F. immoralit['e].] 1. The state or quality of being immoral; vice. The root of all immorality. --Sir W. Temple. 2. An immoral act or practice. Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them. --Milton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see immoral

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Wickedness, vice, sin, sinfulness, depravity, corruption, corruptness, demoralization, criminality, profligacy, want of principle. 2. Immoral action, sin, vice, wrong, wrong act.

Moby Thesaurus

amorality, backsliding, carnality, corruption, criminality, delinquency, depravity, evil, evil nature, impurity, moral delinquency, peccability, prodigality, recidivism, unangelicalness, unchastity, uncleanness, ungodliness, ungoodness, unmorality, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unvirtuousness, vice, viciousness, wantonness, waywardness, wickedness, wrongdoing