Dictionary

ethicality en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English ethical Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English ethicality From ethical + -ity.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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:

Forms

Deriveds

unethicality

Synonyms

ethicalness

Translations (2)

pl etyczność (manner of being) · sl etičnost (manner of being)