ethicality
- noun
- /ˌɛθɪˈkælɪti/
:
ética
- Participants rated the lowest levels of ethicality for smoking, sexual behavior, and alcohol use, suggesting that participants generally did not find it ethical to break confidentiality for these behaviors under most circumstances.
- ethicality of breaching confidentiality
- rating of ethicality
Examples
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He often questioned the ethicality of the company's marketing practices.
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Table 1 provides the mean rating of ethicality for each item across all four forms of the survey.
Academic text (2008) -
Now, Dolly's research focuses on bounded ethicality, which she describes as the psychology of good people.
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Decisions need to be defended against complaints of bias, consistency, costs, ethicality, fairness, practicality, and utility.
Academic text (2002) -
The desirability and ethicality of engaging in such intentional interventions into our common pool of human genetic inheritance are already being debated.
Academic text (2014) -
A linear progression in how school counselors view the ethicality of breaching confidentiality was seen across all behavioral domains.
Academic text (2008) -
The committee evaluated the ethicality of the proposed changes to the law.
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In the debate, they discussed the ethicality of using animals in medical research.
Synonyms
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4.3
Being honest and doing what is right
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3.8
A good personal quality like honesty or kindness
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6.5
Being good and fair in how you act
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5.1
A state of being morally good and fair in actions
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5.6
Being honest and doing the right thing
A quality of being honest and fair that earns respect
Being very good at doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong
How Ethical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ethicality comes from ethical plus the ending -ity, and ethical goes back to Greek ethos meaning 'character' or 'habit' while -ity means 'state'. So ethicality is the 'state of being ethical' or the 'quality of following moral rules', which is why we use it to talk about whether actions fit accepted moral standards.