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Synonyms for virtue
ˈvɜr tʃuvirtue

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Wiktionary3.5 / 2 votes

  1. virtuenoun

    Antonyms:
    foible

  2. virtuenoun

    Antonyms:
    foible

  3. virtuenoun

    Antonyms:
    foible

  4. virtuenoun

    Antonyms:
    foible

  5. virtuenoun

    Antonyms:
    foible

  6. virtuenoun

    Antonyms:
    foible

  7. virtuenoun

    Antonyms:
    foible

  8. virtuenoun

    Antonyms:
    foible

  9. virtuenoun

    Antonyms:
    foible

  10. virtuenoun

    Antonyms:
    vice

English Synonyms and Antonyms3.3 / 3 votes

  1. virtue

    Virtue (Latin virtus, primarily manly strength or courage, from vir, a man, a hero) is, in its full sense, goodness that is victorious through trial, perhaps through temptation and conflict. Goodness, the being morally good, may be much less than virtue, as lacking the strength that comes from trial and conflict, or it may be very much more than virtue, as rising sublimely above the possibility of temptation and conflict — the infantile as contrasted with the divine goodness. Virtue is distinctively human; we do not predicate it of God. Morality is conformity to the moral law in action, whether in matters concerning ourselves or others, whether with or without right principle. Honesty and probity are used especially of one's relations to his fellow men, probity being to honesty much what virtue in some respects is to goodness; probity is honesty tried and proved, especially in those things that are beyond the reach of legal requirement; above the commercial sense, honesty may be applied to the highest truthfulness of the soul to and with itself and its Maker. Integrity, in the full sense, is moral wholeness without a flaw; when used, as it often is, of contracts and dealings, it has reference to inherent character and principle, and denotes much more than superficial or conventional honesty. Honor is a lofty honesty that scorns fraud or wrong as base and unworthy of itself. Honor rises far above thought of the motto that "honesty is the best policy." Purity is freedom from all admixture, especially of that which debases; it is chastity both of heart and life, but of the life because from the heart. Duty, the rendering of what is due to any person or in any relation, is, in this connection, the fulfilment of moral obligation. Rectitude and righteousness denote conformity to the standard of right, whether in heart or act; righteousness is used especially in the religious sense. Uprightness refers especially to conduct. Virtuousness is a quality of the soul or of action; in the latter sense it is the essence of virtuous action. Compare INNOCENT; JUSTICE; RELIGION.

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    Synonyms:
    chastity, duty, excellence, faithfulness, goodness, honesty, honor, integrity, justice, morality, probity, purity, rectitude, righteousness, rightness, truth, uprightness, virtuousness, worth, worthiness

    Antonyms:
    evil, vice, viciousness, wickedness, wrong

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. virtue, virtuousness, moral excellencenoun

    the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong

    Synonyms:
    chastity, virtuousness, merit, sexual morality, moral excellence

  2. merit, virtuenoun

    any admirable quality or attribute

    "work of great merit"

    Synonyms:
    deservingness, meritoriousness, chastity, sexual morality, merit, moral excellence, virtuousness

  3. virtue, chastity, sexual moralitynoun

    morality with respect to sexual relations

    Synonyms:
    sexual morality, sexual abstention, moral excellence, chastity, celibacy, merit, virtuousness

  4. virtuenoun

    a particular moral excellence

    Synonyms:
    chastity, virtuousness, merit, sexual morality, moral excellence

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. virtuenoun

    Synonyms:
    force, efficacy, power, strength, potency

  2. virtuenoun

    Synonyms:
    goodness (that comes from self discipline), uprightness, probity, integrity, rectitude, morality, worth, moral excellence

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. virtuenoun

    Synonyms:
    excellence, worth, goodness, purity, morality, integrity

    Associated words:
    aretology, aretaics

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  1. Steve Schmidt:

    Every winning nominee and every winning presidential candidate walks many lonely miles through the valley of the shadow of political death -- and resiliency is the chief virtue required for victory, john McCain understood that, as did Barack Obama -- while going through the Rev. (Jeremiah) Wright debacle -- as did George W. Bush, after losing to John McCain in New Hampshire in 2000, and there are many other examples.

  2. Seneca:

    We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

  3. Adam Smith:

    Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

  4. Confucius:

    To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

  5. Ursula Le Guin:

    You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.


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