Sense Of Duty

Definition: Sense Of Duty

Sense Of Duty

Noun

1. A motivating awareness of ethical responsibility.

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Synonym: Sense Of Duty

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.

Crosswords: Sense Of Duty

What's the matter, you bums forgotten how to kill people? Have you no sense of pride in what you do? No sense of duty, no sense of destiny? (Dick Tracy; writing credit: Jim Cash)

Sense of Duty (1912)

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If you look around you, you must feel not only the sense of duty done but also you must feel anxiety lest you fall below the level of achievement. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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I have made some sacrifices to a sense of duty, and among others have sacrificed this pleasure also.

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Arabic 

‏الإحساس بالواجب. (various references)

Finnish

velvollisuudentunto. (various references)

French

sentiment du devoir. (various references)

German

Pflichtbewusstsein (conscientiousness, duteousness). (various references)

Hungarian

kötelességtudat. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

義理 (courtesy, debt of gratitude, decency, duty, honor, social obligation), 義務感 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎり (courtesy, debt of gratitude, decency, duty, honor, social obligation), ぎむか�". (various references)

Pig Latin

ensesay ofay utyday

Swedish

pliktkänsla. (various references)

Turkish

görev anlayışı. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: deftness, foetuses, softened, soundest, stenosed.

-4 letters: defuses, denotes, densest, dueness, fetuses, feyness, fondest, fondues, outseen, outsees, snouted, softens, stounds, syndets, tonuses.

-5 letters: defuse, denote, donees, donuts, douses, doyens, endues, ensued, ensues, etudes, fessed, feyest, foetus, fondue, fondus, founds, founts, funest, fusees, fussed, futons, nested, nouses, nudest, onsets, onuses, ousted, outsee, sensed, setons, setose.