immorality

immorality

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪməˈɹælɪti/, /ɪmɔːˈɹælɪti/
• Rhymes: -ælɪti

Noun

immorality (usually uncountable, plural immoralities)

1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being immoral; vice.
2. (countable) An immoral act or practice.
   • 1997, Emily Assami, Mary Kennedy, and Amatullah Bantley, The Qur'an (Saheeh International Translation), surah 7, verse 28

     And when they commit an immorality, they say, "We found our fathers doing it, and Allah has ordered us to do it."

Related terms

• amorality

Translations

state or quality of being immoral

Azerbaijani: əxlaqsızlıq Bulgarian: неморалност (bg) f (nemoralnost) Catalan: immoralitat (ca) f Czech: nemorálnost f Danish: amoral c Farefare: yalsɩ Faroese: siðloysi n Finnish: moraalittomuus (fi) French: immoralité (fr) f German: Immoralität f, Sittenlosigkeit f, Unsittlichkeit (de) f Hungarian: erkölcstelenség (hu) Icelandic: siðleysi n Italian: immoralità (it) f Japanese: 不道徳 (ja) (ふ-どうとく, hu-dōtoku), 背徳 (ja) (はいとく, haitoku) Middle English: unhoneste Norwegian: Bokmål: umoral, usedelighet Nynorsk: umoral, sedløyse Portuguese: imoralidade (pt) f Romanian: imoralitate (ro) f Spanish: inmoralidad (es) f Swedish: omoral (sv) c, sedeslöshet (sv) c Tagalog: dikasanlingan, karumhang-asal, dikagandahang-asal