Immorality

Definitions: Immorality

Immorality

Noun

1. The quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct.

2. Morally objectionable behavior.

Date "immorality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1664. (references)

Synonyms: Immorality

Synonyms: evil (n), iniquity (n), wickedness (n). (additional references)

Antonym: morality (n). (additional references)

The word "immoral" is normally used to describe persons or actions. In a broader sense it can be applied to groups or corporate bodies, beliefs, religions, and works of art. To say that some act is immoral is to say that violates some moral laws, norms or standards.

See:

Morality
Amorality

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Vice	Immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals; enphagy, dophagy, exophagy; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution; hardness of heart; brutality; (malevolence); corruption; (debasement); knavery; (improbity); profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Immorality

English words defined with "immorality": bad ♦ Comstockery ♦ depraved ♦ immoral, Immoralities, incorrupt ♦ perverse, perverted ♦ reprobate ♦ sexual immorality, Stickit minister. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Immorality may be fun, but it isn't fun enough to take the place of one hundred percent virtue and three square meals a day. (Design for Living; writing credit: Noel Coward; Ben Hecht)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Imitations of Immorality (reference) Immorality in the Church: 1 Corinthians 5 (Exegetical Commentary Series) (reference) Immorality of Christianity (reference) Measuring Immorality : Social Inquiry and the Problem of Illegitimacy (reference) Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934 [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Henry Fielding	Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
Oscar Wilde	The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Political Economy	Cote D'ivoire	Two weeks before the election, the Ivoirian Supreme Court disqualified the two front-runners on the grounds of Bombet's possible immorality and Ouattara's "questionable" Ivoirian nationality, leaving General Guei, Ivoirian Popular Front (FPI) President Laurent Gbagbo, and a handful of minor third party candidates. (references)
Women	Indonesia	A separate article in the bill also states that all workers have the right to receive protection against immorality and sexual harassment or abuse. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Immorality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Immorality" is used about 147 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	147	25,998

Expression using "immorality": sexual immorality. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "immorality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		imoralitet (promiscuity), ves (defect, habit, kink, problem, vice). (various references)

Arabic		‏فسوق (debauch, depravity, fornication, perversity, profligacy, sensuality), ‏فساد (blight, corruption, decay, decomposition, degeneration, depravation, depravity, deterioration, disintegration, dry rot, invalidity, perversion, perversity, putrefaction, putridity, rot, rottenness), ‏فجور (bawdry, dissipation, dissoluteness, libertinism, licence, license, profligacy, wantonness, whoredom), ‏لا اخلاقية, ‏سفالة (baseness, depravity, ignobility, imprudence, lowness), ‏خلاعة (dissipation, dissoluteness, lewdness, libertinism, porn, pornography, profligacy, wantonness), ‏إنحراف (aberration, cant, declination, deflection, deflexion, deformity, departure, depravity, deviation, deviousness, divergence, diversion, drift, excursion, inclination, list, obliqueness, obliquity, perversion, perversity, sheer, sidetrack, swerve, tangency, twist). (various references)

Bulgarian		разврат (debaucheries, debauchery, depravation, filth, filthiness, fornication, laxity, lechery, profligacy, riot), неморалност, безнравственост (impurity, licentiousness). (various references)

Chinese		淫邪 (Immoralities). (various references)

Czech		nemravnost (dissoluteness, indecency, obscenity), nemorálnost (amorality). (various references)

Farsi		فساد (Corruption, Decadence, Decay, Degeneration, Depravity, Pus, Putrefaction, Spoil, Turpitude, Vice), بداخلاقی (Misconduct). (various references)

Finnish		siveettömyys (obscenity), paheellisuus, haureus (adultery, lewdness). (various references)

French		immoralité. (various references)

German		unsittlichkeit (indecency), sittenlosigkeit. (various references)

Greek		ανηθικότησ (licentiousness, profligacy, profligateness), ανηθικότητα (bawdiness, licentiousness, profligacy, profligateness, vice). (various references)

Hebrew		שחיתות (corruption, decadence, degeneracy, demoralization, depravity, perversion, perversity, turpitude), חיי פריצות (loose life), אי מוסריות. (various references)

Hungarian		erkölcstelenség (bawdiness, debauchery, filth, filthiness, impurity, lewdness, rottenness, unprincipledness), bujaság (concupiscence, exuberance, exuberancy, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lewdness, lubricity, lust, prurience, pruriency, salacity, sins of the flesh, wantonness). (various references)

Indonesian		pelanggaran susila. (various references)

Italian		immoralit� , malcostume, disonest� (crookedness, dishonesty). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		不倫 (adultery, impropriety). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふぎょうせき (misconduct, profligacy), ふぎょうじょう (misconduct, profligacy), ふぎ (adultery, bring up a matter, bringing up or submitting for discussion, debate, discussion, impropriety, injustice, misconduct, perfidy), ふどうとく (impropriety, iniquity), ふり�" (adultery, impropriety), ふとくぎ, ふとく (depravity, lack of virtue, unworthiness, vice, woman's virtues), い�"ぷう (lewd manners), あくとく (corruption, vice), ら�"り�", はいとく (corruption, fall from virtue, lapse from virtue), はり�" (incest). (various references)

Korean		배덕 (Immoralities). (various references)

Manx		rouanys (excess, lewdness, lust, profligacy, rioting, riotousness, wantonness), drogh-ymmyrkey (misbehave, misbehaviour, misconduct). (various references)

Norwegian		umoralskhet. (various references)

Pig Latin		immoralityay.(various references)

Portuguese		imoralidade (filth, vice), dissoluto (abandoned, dissolute, loose, rackety, rakish), desonestidade (dishonesty, impromptu, indirection, knavery, obliquity, shuffle, untruth). (various references)

Romanian		imoralitate (amorality, licentiousness, nastiness, ordure, profligacy). (various references)

Russian		аморальность (amorality, sleaze), безнравственность. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nepoštenje (crookedness, dishonesty), nemoralnost. (various references)

Spanish		inmoralidad. (various references)

Swedish		omoral. (various references)

Turkish		terbiyesizlik (back chat, bad manners, coarseness, disorderliness, gaucherie, ill breeding, immodesty, impertinence, impoliteness, impudence, indecorum, indelicacy, inelegance, misbehavior, misbehaviour, ribaldry, rudeness, vulgarism), ahlaksızlık (corruption, debauch, debauchery, depravation, depravity, dissoluteness, indecency, moral turpitude, rascality, turpitude, uncleanliness, vice, viciousness, wantonness). (various references)

Ukranian		аморальність (amoralism, amorality), аморальна поведінка. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự trái luân lý, sự trái đạo đức, sự đ�"i bại sự phóng đâng, h� nh vi phóng đãng, h� nh vi đ�"i bại xấu xa. (various references)

Welsh		anfoesoldeb, anfoes (unseemliness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Immorality" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: immorallity. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "immorality" (pronounced i'mera"lutē)
7	-m er a" l u t ē	morality.
6	-er a" l u t ē	generality, liberality, plurality.
5	-a" l u t ē	abnormality, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, finality, formality, frugality, functionality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, individuality, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, rationality, reality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality.
4	-l u t ē	ability, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, agility, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, civility, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, credulity, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, docility, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, equality, facility, fallibility, feasibility, fertility, fidelity, flammability, flexibility, fragility, frivolity, futility, gentility, gullibility, hostility, humility, immobility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incivility, incompatibility, incredulity, indestructibility, inequality, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, mobility, motility, nobility, nonutility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, polity, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, quality, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, seasonality, senility, sensibility, stability, sterility, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, tranquility, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, utility, variability, versatility, viability, virility, visibility, volatility, vulnerability.
3	-u t ē	absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-i-i-l-m-m-o-r-t-y"
	-2 letters: immortal, limitary, military, molarity, morality.
	-3 letters: immoral, miliary, orality.
	-4 letters: airily, aliyot, artily, maloti, marmot, mitral, moirai, mortal, ramtil, rialto, tailor, trimly.
	-5 letters: aioli, amity, amort, atomy, laity, limit, lirot, litai, loamy, lyart, malmy, malty, marly, mayor, milia, milty, moira, molar, moral, moray, myoma, rammy, ratio, riyal, roily, royal, tammy, tolar, tommy, torii, trail, trial, triol, tryma, yomim.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-i-l-m-m-o-r-t-y"
	+1 letter: immortality.
	+2 letters: memorability.
	+3 letters: commerciality, matrimonially.
	+4 letters: inflammatorily.
	+5 letters: commiseratingly, complimentarily, programmability.
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