Definition of: morality

(mə·ral′ə·tē, mô-) noun plural ·ties
1. The doctrine of man's moral duties; ethics.
2. Virtuous conduct; rectitude; chastity.
3. The quality of being morally right.
4. A lesson inferred; a moral.
5. Conformity, or degree of conformity, to conventional rules, without or apart from inspiration and guidance by religion or other spiritual influences.
6. A form of allegorical drama of the 15th and 16th centuries in which the characters were personified virtues, vices, mental attributes, etc. See synonyms under VIRTUE. [<L moralitas, -tatis <moralis. See MORAL.]