Crossword clues for amorality
amorality
Wiktionary
n. (context uncountable English) lack or absence of morality.
WordNet
n. the quality of being amoral
Wikipedia
Amorality is an absence of, indifference towards, or disregard for morality.
Morality and amorality in humans and animals is a subject of dispute among scientists and philosophers. If morality is intrinsic to humanity, then amoral human beings either do not exist or are only deficiently human. If morality is extrinsic to humanity, then amoral human beings can both exist and be fully human, and may be amoral either by nature or by choice.
Amoral should not be confused with immoral, which refers to an agent doing or thinking something he or she knows or believes to be wrong.
Usage examples of "amorality".
Russia, not from Asia but from Europe itself, to infect the radical intelligentsia: the plague of a moral amorality based on egoism and culminating in a form of self-deification.
Dostoevsky himself had once strongly sympathized with French Utopian Socialism in its initial, semi-Christian form, and he knew very well that, even in its Russian metamorphosis of the 1860s, it bore little resemblance to the unbridled amorality preached and practiced by Peter Verkhovensky.
However unappealing or pathetically ridiculous Dostoevsky makes them out to be, the members of the quintet do not believe in systematic amorality and universal destruction as panaceas for the ills of the social order.
Gaius Verres the obsessions and amoralities of the fanatical collector reached a height hitherto unknown.
Considering how Yulin created this race and his own egomania, the men would in fact be powerful sex machines but they should also be at least Yulin's intellectual equal, and he was, for all his amorality and ambition, certainly close to genius.
When McIlvaine notes with some satisfaction that Reverend Grimshaw, the Pemberton family's pastor, forsakes his interest in historical studies of the Bible and rediscovers his fundamentalist faith, are we to think that the antidote to the amorality of our times is to be found in fundamental Christianity?
Mailer raged against the 'snobs, snots and fools' of the literary establishment but refused - at first - to tone down his mannered portrait of Hollywood amorality.