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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct;
- Example: "the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction"

2. morally objectionable behavior;
[syn: evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Immorality \Im`mo*ral"i*ty\, n.; pl. Immoralities. [Cf. F. immoralit['e].] 1. The state or quality of being immoral; vice. [1913 Webster] The root of all immorality. --Sir W. Temple. [1913 Webster] 2. An immoral act or practice. [1913 Webster] Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

immorality n 1: the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct; "the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction" [ant: morality] 2: morally objectionable behavior [syn: evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

29 Moby Thesaurus words for "immorality": amorality, backsliding, carnality, corruption, criminality, delinquency, depravity, evil, evil nature, impurity, moral delinquency, peccability, prodigality, recidivism, unangelicalness, unchastity, uncleanness, ungodliness, ungoodness, unmorality, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unvirtuousness, vice, viciousness, wantonness, waywardness, wickedness, wrongdoing
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

IMMORALITY. that which is contra bonos mores. In England, it is not punishable in some cases, at the common law, on, account of the ecclesiastical jurisdictions: e. g. adultery. But except in cases belonging to the ecclesiastical courts, the court of king's bench is the custom morum, and may punish delicto contra bonos mores. 3 Burr. Rep. 1438; 1 Bl. Rep. 94; 2 Strange, 788. In Pennsylvania, and most, if not all the United States, all such cases come under one and the same jurisdiction. 2. Immoral contracts are generally void; an agreement in consideration of future illicit cohabitation between the parties; 3 Burr. 1568; S. C. 1 Bl. Rep. 517; 1 Esp. R. 13; 1 B. & P. 340, 341; an agreement for the value of libelous and immoral pictures, 4 Esp. R. 97; or for printing a libel, 2 Stark. R. 107; or for an immoral wager, Chit. Contr. 156, cannot, therefore, be enforced. For whatever arises from an immoral or illegal consideration, is void: quid turpi ex causa promissum est non valet. Inst. 3, 20, 24. 3. It is a general rule, that whenever an agreement appears to be illegal, immoral, or against public policy, a court of justice leaves the parties where it finds them; when the agreement has been executed, the court will not rescind it; when executory, the count will not help the execution. 4 Ohio R. 419; 4 John. R. 419; 11 John. R. 388; 12 John. R. 306; 19 John. R. 341; 3 Cowen's R. 213; 2 Wils. R. 341.