Synonyms for immorality
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Noun
1. Wickedness — the state or quality of being immoral; vice
wickedness, depravity, criminality, corruption, evil, indecency, ungodliness, profligacy, impropriety, unrighteousness, turpitude, vice, iniquity, dishonor US, dishonour UK, enormity, unsaintliness, unvirtuousness, unseemliness, unuprightness, unrightfulness, unhonour, unpropriety
Definitions
- n. 1
The state or quality of being immoral; vice.
Forms
- Plural
- immoralities → wickednesses, depravities, criminalities, corruptions…
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Immorality denotes outward violation of the moral law.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- corruption A man of strong will is not subject to corruption.
- criminality Institutionalized criminality will likely remain in Morocco.
- wickedness The desire of wickedness came up in your heart.
- depravity Depravity is becoming the norm in modern life.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| immorality | rising | |
| corruption | rising | |
| criminality | rising | |
| wickedness | rising | |
| depravity | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- evil2, vice1
- 8 letters
- dishonor3, iniquity4, enormity4, unhonour
- 9 letters
- depravity4, dishonour, indecency4, turpitude3
- 10 letters
- corruption3, wickedness3, profligacy4
- 11 letters
- criminality5, impropriety5, ungodliness, unpropriety
- 12 letters
- unseemliness
- 13 letters
- unsaintliness, unuprightness
- 14 letters
- unvirtuousness, unrightfulness
- 15 letters
- unrighteousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (evil2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- immoralité
- Italiano
- immoralità
- Español
- inmoralidad