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Definition: Moral Philosophy |
Moral PhilosophyNoun1. The philosophical study of moral values and rules. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Moral PhilosophySynonym: ethics (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Duty | Ethics, ethology.; deontology, aretology; moral philosophy, ethical philosophy; casuistry, polity. |
Intellect | Metaphysics; psychics, psychology; ideology; mental philosophy, moral philosophy; philosophy of the mind; pneumatology, phrenology; craniology, cranioscopy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Moral Philosophy |
| English words defined with "moral philosophy": Aretology ♦ casuistry ♦ Eudaemonics ♦ Natural philosophy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "moral philosophy": Round Peg. (references) |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | It was Moral Philosophy that our idol lectured on. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
moral philosophy | 18 |
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| Language | Translations for "moral philosophy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | morale (morals). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | etika (ethic, ethics), erkölcstan (ethics, morality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "徳学 , "学 (ethics), 倫理学 (ethics). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | どうがく (ethics, the same amount, the same school), どうとくがく, り"りがく (ethics). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fallsoonaght voralaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oralmay ilosophyphay moralã (ethics, lecture, lesson, moral, morality, spirits), eticã (deontology, ethics, morality). (various references) этика (deontology, ethics, morality, morals). (various references) moral (moral, morale, morality, morally, mulberry, mulberry bush). (various references) sedelära (morality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | ethike philosophia. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-h-i-l-l-m-o-o-o-p-p-r-s-y" | |
-5 letters: allomorphs, hypomorphs, philosophy, phosphoryl, polymorphs, sporophyll. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-h-i-l-l-m-o-o-o-p-p-r-s-y" | |
+4 letters: polychromatophilias. | |
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