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English
Etymology
From ethical + -ity.
Noun
ethicality (countable and uncountable, plural ethicalities)
- The state, quality, or manner of being ethical.
- 1981, Jack Jones, "Social Darwinism Reconsidered," Political Psychology, vp. 3, no. 1/2, p. 247:
- Some reformers and sociologists, though the majority stuck by the older internationalist ethicalities, began to adopt imperialist and group Social Darwinist views.
1995, Linda J. Skinner et al., “Academic Sexual Intimacy Violations: Ethicality and Occurrence Reports from Undergraduates”, in The Journal of Sex Research, volume 32, number 2, page 133:As compared to the numerous studies focused on the incidence of student-faculty sexual involvement, few researchers have examined student perceptions of the ethicality of this form of sexual intimacy.
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References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.