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amorality

amorality

2 8.2
A lack of concern about what is right or wrong
  • noun
  • /ˌæməˈrælɪti/
translation icon : amoridad
  • The beasts of modernism have mutated into the beasts of post-modernism—relativism into nihilism, amorality into immorality.

Examples

  • Amorality frees her to be universally perfect.

    Color of Night (1994)

  • The Contras combined amorality and ruthlessness with a smart strategy: defeat the Sandinistas by turning their country into hell on earth.

    Academic text (2007)

  • After all, what chance did the government have against such corporate amorality?

    Blog text (16)

  • Some are too quick to equate amorality with nihilism.

    Blog text (18)

  • Human beings are capable of being better and worse than dogs, but not of reducing themselves to the amorality of doglike simplicity.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Those who have been inclined to see him as a kind of prophet of amorality have supposed that he was writing for posterity.

  • Are intensity, impropriety, sensuality, and amorality enough to sustain it?

    Academic text (2011)

  • What seems clear in the aggressive amorality of these acts, and yet strangely unacknowledged, is the war's proximity.

    Academic text (2003)

  • How people don't howl at the absurdity and amorality of their beliefs and publicly jeer them, I don't know.

    Blog text (25)

  • The CEO's decisions often reflect a blatant amorality that prioritizes profit over ethics.

Synonyms

amoralism
vsamorality
  • Specialized
9.9

Belief that right and wrong do not matter

denotes a lack of moral principles or indifference to right and wrong

Antonyms

morality
282 4.6

Ideas about right and wrong that tell people how to act

ethicality
8.2

A quality of acting in a morally right way

How Moral

morality
282 4.6
amorality
2 8.2
immorality
23 6.3

Surface Forms

amorality singular
amoralties plural

Morphology

amorality = amoral (semi-transparent) = a + moral + ity

The noun is a standard and fully compositional state/quality formation from the adjective 'amoral' with '-ity'.

Etymology

Amorality comes from the part a- meaning 'not' and the word moral meaning 'right or wrong', so amorality is the idea of being 'not' concerned with moral rules and helps explain why it means a lack of moral principles.