Synonyms for immorality
ˌɪm əˈræl ɪ ti, ˌɪm ɔ-im·moral·i·ty

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1. immorality

   Sin is any lack of holiness, any defect of moral purity and truth, whether in heart or life, whether of commission or omission. "All unrighteousness is sin," 1 John v, 17. Transgression, as its etymology indicates, is the stepping over a specific enactment, whether of God or man, ordinarily by overt act, but in the broadest sense, in volition or desire. Sin may be either act or state; transgression is always an act, mental or physical. Crime is often used for a flagrant violation of right, but in the technical sense denotes specific violation of human law. Guilt is desert of and exposure to punishment because of sin. Depravity denotes not any action, but a perverted moral condition from which any act of sin may proceed. Sin in the generic sense, as denoting a state of heart, is synonymous with depravity; in the specific sense, as in the expression a sin, the term may be synonymous with transgression, crime, offense, misdeed, etc., or may denote some moral activity that could not be characterized by terms so positive. Immorality denotes outward violation of the moral law. Sin is thus the broadest word, and immorality next in scope; all crimes, properly so called, and all immoralities, are sins; but there may be sin, as ingratitude, which is neither crime, transgression, nor immorality; and there may be immorality which is not crime, as falsehood. Compare CRIMINAL.

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   Synonyms:
   crime, criminality, delinquency, depravity, evil, fault, guilt, ill-doing, iniquity, misdeed, offense, sin, transgression, ungodliness, unrighteousness, vice, viciousness, wickedness, wrong, wrong-doing

   Antonyms:
   blamelessness, excellence, godliness, goodness, holiness, innocence, integrity, morality, purity, rectitude, right, righteousness, sinlessness, uprightness, virtue

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1. immoralitynoun

   the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct

   "the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction"

   Synonyms:
   wickedness, evil, iniquity

   Antonyms:
   morality

2. evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquitynoun

   morally objectionable behavior

   Synonyms:
   shabbiness, sinfulness, sin, ugliness, evilness, iniquity, dark, unfairness, wickedness, evil, darkness, sliminess, repulsiveness, lousiness, nefariousness, loathsomeness, vileness, injustice

   Antonyms:
   morality

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1. immoralitynoun

   Synonyms:
   wickedness, vice, sin, dishonesty, depravity, corruption, demoralization, sinfulness, criminality, profligacy, want of principle

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1. immoralitynoun

   Synonyms:
   vice, licentiousness, depravity, profligacy, obliquity

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1. List of paraphrases for "immorality":

   debauchery

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1. Alfred North Whitehead:

   What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

2. Steven Hotze:

   It would force individuals to have to condone, accept, even celebrate, sexual immorality.

3. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi:

   I can retain neither respect nor affection for a government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality.

4. Denis de Rougemont:

   Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.

5. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.