Ethics

Noun

 * 1)  The study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct.
 * 2) Morality.
 * 3) The standards that govern the conduct of a person, especially a member of a profession.

Synonyms

 * moral philosophy

Derived terms

 * applied ethics
 * bioethics
 * business ethics
 * comparative ethics
 * descriptive ethics
 * environmental ethics


 * ethicist
 * medical ethics
 * metaethics
 * normative ethics
 * situational ethics

Related terms

 * ethic
 * ethical
 * ethos

Adjectives for Ethics
professional; inflexible; strict; dreary; government; ministerial; legal; cheerless; bad; heightened.

Verbs for Ethics
adopt—; consider—; control by—; digest—; discourse on—; embrace—; exhort—; impose by—; improve—; instruct in—; involve—; judge—; live up to—; obligate by—; observe—; rebel against—; rely on—; test—; versed in—; —directs; —guides; — provides; —raises.

Thesaurus
aesthetics, allegiance, assigned task, axiology, bounden duty, burden, business, call of duty, casuistry, charge, commitment, cosmology, dedication, deference, devoir, devotion, duties and responsibilities, duty, epistemology, fealty, first philosophy, gnosiology, homage, imperative, line of duty, logic, loyalty, mental philosophy, metaphysics, mission, moral philosophy, must, obligation, ontology, onus, ought, phenomenology, philosophastry, philosophic doctrine, philosophic system, philosophic theory, philosophical inquiry, philosophical speculation, philosophy, place, respect, school of philosophy, school of thought, science of being, self-imposed duty, sophistry, theory of beauty, theory of knowledge, value theory

Etymology
From ethique: <  ethica: <  ἠθική: < ἠθικός: < ἦθος:.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: etiek
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: {اخلاق؛ علم اخلاق؛ }
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
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 * Afrikaans: eties
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * German: Verhaltenskodex
 * Hebrew: אתיקה


 * Italian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * : etiko

Anagrams

 * itches, tiches