ethicality
ethicality noun: the state, quality, or manner of being ethical.
Noun
ethicality (countable and uncountable, plural ethicalities)
- The state, quality, or manner of being ethical.
- Some reformers and sociologists, though the majority stuck by the older internationalist ethicalities, began to adopt imperialist and group Social Darwinist views.1981, Jack Jones, "Social Darwinism Reconsidered," Political Psychology, vp. 3, no. 1/2, p. 247
- As compared to the numerous studies focused on the incidence of student-faculty sexual involvement, few researchers have examined student perceptions of the ethicality of this form of sexual intimacy.1995, Linda J. Skinner et al., “Academic Sexual Intimacy Violations: Ethicality and Occurrence Reports from Undergraduates”, in The Journal of Sex Research, volume 32, number 2, page 133
- Synonyms:
- ethicalness
Synonyms of ethicality
Forms of ethicality
| plural | ethicalities |
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Origin of ethicality
From ethical + -ity.
Words formed from ethicality
Questions about ethicality
- What does ethicality mean?
- Ethicality means the state, quality, or manner of being ethical.
- What part of speech is ethicality?
- Ethicality is a noun.
- What is the plural of ethicality?
- The plural of ethicality is ethicalities.
Words near ethicality in the dictionary
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