immorality

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪməˈɹælɪti/, /ɪmɔːˈɹælɪti/

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• Rhymes: -ælɪti

Noun

immorality (usually uncountable, plural immoralities)

2. (uncountable) The state or quality of being immoral; vice.
4. (countable) An immoral act or practice.
   • 1997, Emily Assami, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley, transl., 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."

     [original: وَإِذَا فَعَلُوا فَاحِشَةً قَالُوا وَجَدْنَا عَلَيْهَا آبَاءَنَا وَٱللَٰهُ أَمَرَنَا بِهَا]

     waʔiḏā faʕalū fāḥišatan qālū wajadnā ʕalayhā ʔābāʔanā wal-lāhu ʔamaranā bihā

Synonyms

• turpitude

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) Mari: Eastern Mari: лавыра (lavyra) Middle English: unhoneste Norwegian: Bokmål: umoral, usedelighet Nynorsk: umoral, sedløyse Ottoman Turkish: فساد (fesâd) Polish: niemoralność (pl) f 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