Morality

Definition: Morality

Morality

Noun

1. Concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct.

2. Motivation based on ideas of right and wrong.

Date "morality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Morality

Synonyms: ethical motive (n), ethics (n), morals (n). (additional references)

Antonym: immorality (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Morality

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A morality is a complex of concepts and beliefs by which an individual determines whether his or her actions are right or wrong. Oftentimes, these concepts and beliefs are generalized and codified in a culture or group, and thus serve to regulate the behaviour of its members.

In general

Views on morality have varied greatly over time, and from culture to culture. Usually, a morality applies to fields in which the choices made by individuals express an intention relative to other individuals (even non-members of the society). Thus, there exists an academic dispute about whether morality can exist only in the presence of a society (meaning a plurality of few individuals), or also in a hypothetical individual with no relationships with others.

A concept of morality may tend toward any of the possible directions in a given field, and moralities exist that recommend heavy restrictions on behaviours, as well as moralities that recommend totally free self-determination, as well as a variety of intermediate positions.

The efficacy of a morality depends on the social position and political representativeness of the group that espouses it, and on its relationship with the norms of the related society. A morality is put into effect through its influence on the society's general rules and formal codes—especially penal codes and the determination of juridicially correct conduct. The fields in which the influence of morality is most commonly appreciated are sex-related matters, financial and professional conduct (with the notable example of deontology), and human relationships in general.

A morality can be suggested by many sources. Very often, an individual's morality is influenced, to large degree, by religion or theology, but other sources are also often cited, such as objective (natural) reality or political reality.

Many groups may, effectively, be distinguished by their morality, as a fundamental characteristic; in some cases, the common view on morality can be a basic factor of aggregation, as it happens in developed countries where the giantism of social structures causes (for other reasons) the need of building inside them sub-groups, identified by a common belief or view upon certain matters. This process, indeed, shows a similarity with the process of creation of political regroupements, and in fact sometimes the two fields (not always reciprocally) interfere.

On a subjective level, morality is a system of personal ethical conduct that the individual imposes on himself or herself. It is more concerned with individual choices, as a personal effect of free will, rather than with dispute resolution or conflict, and does not seem to imply a relationship with other individuals or groups. This subjective self-regulation can also sometimes be derived from religion or theology, but is also often seen as totally personal, unsharable, intuitive, creative and aesthetic (a "moral core").

The nature of morals themselves is often at issue between those who advocate shared morality or intuitive morality. They may be seen as rules, or simply as examples drawn from stories. Most sources of morality, e.g. the Bible, include both, although it is usually clear that the rules drawn in the story itself are more important than those observed within it as examples.

Rebellion against morality

Moralities often include rules and regulations that do not have obvious reasons for existing, i.e., no immediate, immensely harmful results of transgression are apparent. This is so because the harmful effects of such actions are largely indirect, but real nonetheless. Thus, the need for the particular aspect of morality may be questioned. It is not unusual for rebellion against morality to occur, especially by the developing members of societies, or those whose behaviour is especially affected. At times, this questioning extends to the society in general, even to the extent of changing of laws which prohibited certain behaviours. Sometimes, the abandonment of the previous moral stance is found to have no great apparent detriment, perhaps due to changed circumstances, such as technological developments. Usually, however, the rebellion occurs only until the harmful consequences of the previously forbidden actions, and the need for that morality, are rediscovered. (If this were not so, the particular aspect of the morality would not exist.)

Impact of the Evolutionionary World-view on Morals

A corollary of evolution is that it denies the absolute significance of moral values. Opponents of moral absolutism such as evolutionary psychologists have argued that human morality evolved because it assists survival. An innate tendency to develop a sense of right and wrong may help an individual to survive and reproduce in a social, thinking species. Selected behaviours, seen in abstraction as moral codes, are common to all human cultures, and reflect, in their development, similarities to natural selection. This aspect of morality can be seen in religious doctrine, much of which deals with the acceptance, in people, of positive aspects, and the rejection of negative ones. Thus it can be argued that there may be a simple Darwinian explanation for the existence of religion: regardless of the truth or falsity of religious beliefs, religion tends to encourage morality, morality tends to encourage communality, and communality tends to assist survival.

The thesis of evolutionary psychology is controversial. One might argue that it puts one in an impossible moral dilemma. My definition of who is wise and what is good may differ from yours. The problem is, who is to decide?

Furthermore, if the unimpeded progress of evolution were our chief concern, why should we care for the defenseless, the weak, or the sick? Would it not be more prudent to put them to sleep, lest they hinder the evolutionary process? Where is the rational basis for any sentimental feelings for the innate value of human life? In some juridical systems, the word morality concretely means a requirement for the access to certain charges or careers, or for the obtaining of certain licenses or concessions, and generally consists of the absence of previous records on (e.g.) crimes, bankruptcy, political or commercial irregularities.

In some systems, the lack of morality of the individual can also be a sufficient cause for punishment, or can be an element for the grading of the punishment.

Especially in the systems where modesty (i.e., with reference to sexual crimes) is legally protected or otherwise regulated, the definition of morality as a legal element and in order to determine the cases of infringement, is usually left to the vision and appreciation of the single judge and hardly ever precisely specified. In such cases, it is common to verify an application of the prevalent common morality of the interested community, that consequently becomes enforced by the law for further reference. See also: blue laws, sexual morality, moral relativism, moral absolutism, moral universalism, moral hazard

Compare: ethics

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Morality."

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Synonyms within Context: Morality

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Duty	Morality, morals, decalogue; case of conscience; conscientiousness; (probity); conscience, inward monitor, still small voice within, sense of duty, tender conscience, superego; the hell within. dueness; propriety, fitness, seemliness, amenability, decorum, gr/to prepon/gr the thing, the proper thing; the right thing to do, the proper thing to do.
Virtue	Noun: virtue; virtuousness; Adjective: morality; moral rectitude; integrity; (probity); nobleness.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Morality

English words defined with "morality": abnormality, amorally ♦ base, Benthamism ♦ chastity, Common sense ♦ debauched, decency, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute ♦ ethic, ethical code, Ethological ♦ fast ♦ hideous, horrid, horrific ♦ illicit, immorally, impotent, irregularity ♦ law of nature, libertine, licit, louche ♦ mean, meanspirited, Moral play, moralism, Moralities ♦ nihilist ♦ outrageous ♦ Papal infallibility, principled, profligate ♦ reaction formation, rescript, right, righteous, rightness, riotous ♦ scandalousness, sexual morality, shady ♦ Unmoralized ♦ virtue ♦ wrong, wrongness. (references)

Specialty definitions using "morality": Academe ♦ Coffee House ♦ Disgrace ♦ Liguorians ♦ Nihilists ♦ Oysters ♦ Pecksniff, Pen, Pomegranate, Punch ♦ Rubber ♦ UNDERCOVER OPERATOR ♦ Worms ♦ ZEALOT. (references)

Etymologies containing "morality": Deordination. (references)

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Modern Usage: Morality

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I don't want to sound like a voice for morality, it makes him angry and you angry. (The Honey Pot; writing credit: Ben Jonson; Frederick Knott) I love the fact that the captain of the morality team invites his chick to the same party as his wife, who let's face it, isn't the sharpest tool in the shed anymore. (Igby Goes Down; writing credit: Burr Steers) Aim above morality. (Harold and Maude; writing credit: Colin Higgins) I admire its purity, its sense of survival; unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. (Alien; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett) So what in most people is morality, in you it's just an exercise in what's the word? (Becket; writing credit: Edward Anhalt; Jean Anouilh)
Lyrics	Fear based society wrought by a morality of separation (Anarchy Through Capitolism; performing artist: Kottonmouth Kings)
Movie/TV Titles	Man and Morality (1916) Noam Chomsky: Distorted Morality (2003) A Man of Morality (1976)
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Commercial Usage: Morality

Domain	Title
Books	Evolutionary Origins of Morality : Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (reference) Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale (reference) Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It (reference) Morality for Beautiful Girls (reference) Morality Play (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Journal Of Markets & Morality (reference) Morality In Media Newsletter (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Morality (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Architecture & Morality (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Discworld 2: Morality Bites (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Morality

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The new morality play exit demon rum--enter drug habit / / W.A. Rogers. Credit: Library of Congress.		Never have freedom and international morality been so righteously protected. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Familiar Quotations: Morality

Author	Quotation
F.c. Monfort	The morality of the Bible is, after all, the safety of society.
G.k. Chesterton	Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Henry Brooks Adams	Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry David Thoreau	Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
James A(nthony) Froude	To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
Matthew Arnold	The paramount virtue of religion is that it has lighted up morality.
Mikhail A. Bakunin	Divine morality is the absolute negation of human morality.
Oscar Wilde	Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Civilization depends on morality.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Morality

Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests. (reference)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign William II of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offence against international morality and the sanctity of treaties. (reference)
United Nations	1948	In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Morality

Title	Author	Quote
Life, the Universe and Everything	Douglas Adams	On the way back they sang a number of tuneful and reflective songs on the subjects of peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	It is a question of public morality.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	The learning of this people is very defective, consisting only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematics, wherein they must be allowed to excel.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Morality

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		As under the previous law, the Korean government can only reject a foreign investor notification if the activity appears on an explicit negative list or is somehow related to national security, the maintenance of public order, or the protection of public health, morality or safety. (references)
		KFDA recently initiated a plan to establish a timeline to facilitate a new health food's approval within a year's time. According to the agency's draft, a successful application will submit information on product description, origin, previous uses, manufacturing methods, usefulness, safety, morality, quality control criteria (appearance, index ingredients, storage conditions, expiry date), usage, standards and specifications. (references)
Children	Mauritius	In June 2000, the Ministry announced that 3,350 cases of child abuse have been reported since 1997. Under the law, certain acts compromising the health, security, or morality of a child are crimes. (references)
Civil Liberties	Poland	The Broadcasting Law stipulates that programs should not promote activities that are illegal or against state policy, morality, or the common good. (references)
	Austria	Publications may be removed from circulation if they violate legal provisions concerning morality or public security, but such cases are extremely rare. (references)
Economic History	West Bank	Both applicable legal systems prohibit the registration of designs that are contrary to morality or public order. (references)
	Nigeria	There is a public policy restraint on the use of trademarks, names or labels that are scandalous or not entitled to protection in a court of justice or marks, which are contrary to law and morality. (references)
	Spain	In the absence of detailed regulation, parties are free under the Civil and Commercial Codes to enter into any contractual agreement by stipulating the terms and conditions they consider appropriate, provided those terms are not contrary to law, morality or public order. (references)
Human Rights	United Arab Emirates	All trials are public, except for national security cases and those deemed by the judge likely to harm public morality. (references)
	Finland	Local courts may conduct a closed trial in juvenile, matrimonial, and guardianship cases, or when publicity would offend morality or endanger the security of the state. (references)
	Swaziland	However, chiefs' courts only are empowered to administer customary law "insofar as it is not repugnant to natural justice or morality," or inconsistent with the provisions of any law in force. (references)
Political Economy	SINGAPORE	Parliament may, however, impose restrictions due to security, public order, or morality considerations. (references)
	Indonesia	Enforcement of the law against criminal violence deteriorated, resulting in religious groups purporting to uphold public morality, and mobs dispensing "street justice" operating with impunity. (references)
	Sweden	Christian Democratic Party - Stands for morality and values-based governments, is anti-abortion, and wants greater support for homes and families in order to reduce youth problems, alcoholism, crime, and other social problems. (references)
Trade	Tunisia	THESE INCLUDE ITEMS CONCERNING SECURITY, PUBLIC ORDER, HYGIENE, HEALTH, MORALITY, PROTECTION OF FLORA AND FAUNA, AND CULTURAL HERITAGE. (references)
	India	There are also prohibitions in place for items related to maintaining internal security, public order and various standards of decency and morality. (references)
	Switzerland	Import licenses are also required for certain products not subject to quotas, but which are covered by special regulations concerned with public health, plant health, quarantine (plants), veterinary regulations and regulations concerning the protection of species, safety measures, price control (for certain textile products), and measures for the protection of the Swiss economy and public morality. (references)
Women	Hungary	During the first 6 months of the year, there were 5,059 reports of crimes against family, youth, and sexual morality. (references)
	Philippines	Women's advocates cite double standards of morality and a traditional societal reluctance to discuss private family affairs as some of the reasons for domestic violence. (references)
Worker Rights	Croatia	Children may not be employed before reaching the legal age and are not allowed to perform work that is harmful to their health or morality. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Morality

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Miller	Some religious zealots act like the code of morality they claim to be upholding can be temporarily shelved when it gets in the way of their more immediate goals.
Rush Limbaugh	Former President Reagan was confident that communism would fall, not because it was going to be defeated necessarily, but because it would implode on its own lack of morality on the basis that it wouldn't survive.
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Speeches: Morality

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.
James Madison	1809-1817	Such is the spectacle which the deputed authorities of a nation boasting its religion and morality have not been restrained from presenting to an enlightened age.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	Morality in private business has not been sufficiently spurred by morality in public business.
George W. Bush	2001-2005	Above all, our principles and our security are challenged today by outlaw groups and regimes that accept no law of morality and have no limit to their violent ambitions.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Morality

"Morality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.83% of the time. "Morality" is used about 1,197 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)	99.83%	1,195	6,476
Noun (proper)	0.08%	1	339,140
Noun (common)	0.08%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	1,197	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Morality

Expressions using "morality": abasement of morality ♦ morality play ♦ morality squad ♦ sexual morality. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "morality": morality-religion, morality-religions, morality-while, morality-'who.
	Ending with "morality": anti-morality, protest-morality.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Morality

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
morality	138	morality psychological	5
ethics and morality	17	economic morality	5
christian morality	15	capital morality punishment	4
morality play	15	political morality	4
in media morality	15	morality play review	4
the definition of morality	13	catholic morality	4
sexual morality	10	america in morality	4
the media morality	9	clinton hillary morality	4
law morality	9	israel morality	4
morality test	8	bush george morality	4
morality of abortion	7	bush morality president	4
morality and religion	7	iraq morality	4
morality violence	7	international morality news	4
morality quote	7	group international morality	4
leadership morality	7	affluence famine morality	3
morality war	6	morality teaching	3
homosexuality morality	6	islam morality	3
morality school	5	morality poem	3
declining morality	5	education morality	3
everyman morality play	5	drug morality	3
		euthanasia morality	3
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Modern Translation: Morality

Language		Translations for "morality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		moralitet, virtyt (goodness, virtue), parime morale (moral, morals). (various references)

Arabic		‏فضيلة (excellence, grace, recommendation, virtue), ‏مذهب في الأخلاق, ‏أخلاقية, ‏درس أخلاقي. (various references)

Bulgarian		нравственост (morals), нравоучение, морал (jobation, moral, morals), етика (ethics, morals). (various references)

Chinese		�"德 (moral, virtue). (various references)

Czech		mravnost (morals), morálnost, morálka (morale), ctnost (quality, virtue). (various references)

Danish		udnyttelse,der strider mod sædelighed eller offentlig orden (exploitation contrary to public policy or morality), præmoralsk niveau (preconventional morality), personlig moral (postconventional morality), konformitetsbundet moral (conventional morality), begrundet i hensynet til den offentlige saedelighed,den offentlige orden,den offentlige sikkerhed (justified on grounds of public morality, public policy or public security). (various references)

Dutch		moraliteit. (various references)

Esperanto		moraleco, virto (vice). (various references)

Faeroese		dygd (vice). (various references)

Farsi		سیرت (Character, Inclination, Moral), اخلاقیات , اخلاق (Behavior, Comportment, Moral). (various references)

Finnish		siveellisyys (morals). (various references)

French		vertu. (various references)

German		Sittlichkeit (ethics, morals), moral (ethics, moral, moral standards, morale, morals), Moralität. (various references)

Greek		ηθικότησ, ηθικότητα, ηθική (continence, ethics). (various references)

Hebrew		מוסריות (moralism, virtue), מ�"ות טובות (morals), �"�'י� ות (decency, decorum, equity, fairness, honesty, plain dealing, propriety, rectitude, respectability, seemliness, sincerity, squareness, worthiness). (various references)

Hungarian		erkölcsi felfogás, erkölcs (moral, morals), erény (honor, honour, virtue). (various references)

Indonesian		kesusilaan. (various references)

Italian		virtú (vice), moralit� (morale, morals). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"義 (moral principles), 義 (honour, justice, righteousness), モノカルボン酸 (dag coating containing molybdenum, mobile, mohair, Mohawk, Mohawk haircut, molybdenum, moment, momism, monaural, monaural record, monocarboxylic acid, monochrome, monoclonal, mono-fluorine, monogram, monograph, monographie, monolock, monologue, monomania, monomaniac, monomer, monopolize, monopoly, monorail, monosexual, monotone, monotype, moped, moral hazard, moral majority, moral pollution, moral risk, moral sense, moral support, morale, morale survey, moralist, moratorium, Morris dance, person fond of using a mobile phone, unisex), 徳義 (morals, sincerity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぎ (affair, be suspicious of, case, ceremony, connection, deception, deed, distrust, doubt, false, falsehood, favor, friendly relations, friendship, goodwill, honour, imitation, intimacy, justice, kindness, lie, matter, relation, righteousness, rule, skill), モラリティー , どうぎ (a motion, moral principles, the same meaning, undergarment), とくぎ (morals, sincerity, special skill). (various references)

Korean		도덕 (moral, Moralities). (various references)

Manx		moraltaght (ethics, morals), beasid (compliance, manner, passiveness), beasaght (decorum, submissiveness). (various references)

Pig Latin		oralitymay

Portuguese		virtude (merit, vice, virtue, well-doing), moralidade (moral, morals). (various references)

Romanian		moralitate (moral), moralã (ethics, lecture, lesson, moral, moral philosophy, spirits), eticã (deontology, ethics, moral philosophy), cinste (appreciation, ceremony, chastity, consideration, credit, crown, esteem, fairness, faith, faithfulness, fame, Favor, favour, fealty, gift, glory, honesty, honor, honour, integrity, probity, repute, respect, straight, treat, truth, uprightness, virtue), bunã purtare (behavior, behaviour). (various references)

Russian		мораль (ethics, moral, referent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		moralnost (morals), čednost (virginity, virtue). (various references)

Spanish		virtud (ability, chastity, courage, energy, force, merit, purity, righteousness, strength, vice, vigour, virtue), moralidad (moral, morale, morals, mores). (various references)

Swedish		sedlighet (decency), moral (ethic, ethics, morale, morals). (various references)

Thai		ความ�"ีงาม (good, goodness), จรรยา. (various references)

Turkish		törellik, ahlâk (character, ethic, ethics, morals). (various references)

Turkmen		moral (r) (moral, morals). (various references)

Ukrainian		мораль (ethic, ethics, moral, pi), принципи поведінки. (various references)

Vietnamese		phẩm hạnh (moral), nhân cách giá trị đạo đức, ý nghĩa đạo đức, đạo nghĩa đức hạnh. (various references)

Welsh		moesoldeb, moes (bring hither, give, manners, morals). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Morality

Language	Period	Translations
French	1500-Modern	morale. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Morality

Derivations
	Words ending with "morality": amorality, immorality, unmorality. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Morality" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gorbalite, Macavity, Margalit, merulite, Migralift, moalrish, molality, molarity, Morabit, moraity, morali, morallity, mordality, moreality, Moriarity, morility, morillity, Morlai, Morlotti, morolity, motality, Muradiye, norlite, orality, Orlaith. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Morality"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "morality" (pronounced mera"lutē)
7	m er a" l u t ē	immorality.
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.

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Anagrams: Morality

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: molarity.
	Words within the letters "a-i-l-m-o-r-t-y"
	-1 letter: orality.
	-2 letters: aliyot, artily, maloti, mitral, mortal, ramtil, rialto, tailor, trimly.
	-3 letters: amity, amort, atomy, laity, lirot, loamy, lyart, malty, marly, mayor, milty, moira, molar, moral, moray, ratio, riyal, roily, royal, tolar, trail, trial, triol, tryma.
	-4 letters: airt, airy, alit, alto, amir, amyl, aril, army, arty, aryl, atom, iota, lair, lari, lati, liar, lima.
	Words containing the letters "a-i-l-m-o-r-t-y"
	+1 letter: amorality, formality, mortality, normality.
	+2 letters: immorality, immortally, modularity, monetarily, osmolarity, unmorality.
	+3 letters: abnormality, calorimetry, customarily, dilatometry, formability, formatively, immortality, importantly, informality, maladroitly, maledictory, mandatorily, mayoralties, momentarily, motorically, nonmilitary, normatively, polarimetry, primatology, proximately, stimulatory, temporality, temporarily.
	+4 letters: admonitorily, ambulatorily, amelioratory, aromatically, assimilatory, immoderately, inflammatory, isothermally, lachrymosity, lognormality, manipulatory, memorability, meteorically, microanalyst, microcrystal, microtonally, removability, romantically, subnormality, voluntaryism.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.