immorality

English

Pronunciation

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

Related terms

• amorality

Synonyms

• turpitude

 

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