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1. (n.) ethics
(used with a sing. or pl. v.) a system or set of moral principles.
2. ethics
(used with a pl. v.) the rules of conduct governing a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.:
medical ethics.
3. ethics
(usu. used with a sing. v.) the branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of actions and the goodness and badness of motives and ends.
4. ethics
(used with a pl. v.) moral principles, as of an individual:
His ethics forbade cheating.
Etymology: (1400–50; modeled on Gk tàēthiká)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) ethical motive, ethics, morals, morality
motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
2. (noun) ethics, moral philosophy
the philosophical study of moral values and rules
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1. (noun) ethics
beliefs about what is morally right and wrong
ethics in medicine
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) ETHICS
the science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to a single class of human actions; as, political or social ethics; medical ethics
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. ETHICS
the science which treats of the distinction between right and wrong and of the moral sense by which they are discriminated.
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. ETHICS
The philosophy or code pertaining to what is ideal in human character and conduct. Also, the field of study dealing with the principles of morality.
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Sense: the study or the science of morals.
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 Afrikaans: sede |
 Arabic: عِلْم الأخْلاق |
 Bulgarian: етика |
 Brazilian: ética |
 Czech: etika |
 German: die Ethik |
 Danish: etik; moral |
 Greek: ηθική |
 Spanish: ética |
 Estonian: eetika |
 Farsi: علم اخلاق |
 Finnish: etiikka |
 French: morale |
 Hebrew: תוֹרַת הָמוּסָר |
 Hindi: आचारशास्त्र |
 Croatian: etika |
 Hungarian: etika |
 Indonesian: etika |
 Icelandic: siðfræði |
 Italian: etica |
 Japanese: 倫理学 |
 Korean: 윤리 |
 Lithuanian: etika |
 Latvian: ētika |
 Malay: etika |
 Dutch: ethiek |
 Norwegian: etikk, morallære |
 Polish: etyka |
 Persian: علم اخلاق |
 Pashto: اخلاقو علم، اخلاقى قوانين |
 Portuguese: ética |
 Romanian: etică |
 Russian: этика |
 Slovak: etika |
 Slovenian: etika |
 Serbian: etika |
 Swedish: etik, morallära |
 Thai: จริยศาสตร์ |
 Turkish: etik, töre/ahlâk bilimi |
 Taiwanese: 倫理學 |
 Ukrainian: етика |
 Urdu: اخلاقیات |
 Vietnamese: đạo đức học |
 Chinese: 伦理学 |
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