{
    "term": "morality",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "principles relating to right and wrong or good and bad behaviour",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "matters of **public/private morality**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Standards of morality seem to be dropping."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She criticized politicians' standards of personal morality."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Should governments be legislating morality?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "efforts to strengthen traditional morality"
                },
                {
                    "text": "people who wish to impose their morality on other people"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A stable society relies on both private and public morality."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do you think standards of morality are falling?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He seems to have no personal morality at all."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Ideas of traditional morality are being questioned all the time."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sexual morality should be considered a private matter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The church tried to uphold public morality by censoring books and magazines."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Whatever her personal morality, she has no right to judge others."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["conventional", "traditional", "strict"],
                "verb + morality": ["legislate", "question", "impose"],
                "morality + verb": ["be based on something"],
                "phrases": ["standards of morality"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the degree to which something is right or wrong, good or bad, etc. according to moral principles",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There is a continuing debate on the morality of abortion."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["conventional", "traditional", "strict"],
                "verb + morality": ["legislate", "question", "impose"],
                "morality + verb": ["be based on something"],
                "phrases": ["standards of morality"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a system of moral principles followed by a particular group of people",
            "examples": [],
            "synonyms": "ethics",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["conventional", "traditional", "strict"],
                "verb + morality": ["legislate", "question", "impose"],
                "morality + verb": ["be based on something"],
                "phrases": ["standards of morality"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/məˈræləti/",
                "audio": "mo/morality/morality__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/məˈræləti/",
                "audio": "mo/morality/morality__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French moralite or late Latin moralitas, from Latin moralis, from mos, mor- ‘custom’, (plural) mores ‘morals’."
}