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MORALISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Judgments about another person's morality
Example:
he could not stand her hectoring moralism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("moralism" is a kind of...):
value judgement; value judgment (an assessment that reveals more about the values of the person making the assessment than about the reality of what is assessed)
Derivation:
moralist (someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms)
moralistic (narrowly and conventionally moral)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A moral maxim
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("moralism" is a kind of...):
axiom; maxim (a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits)
Derivation:
moralistic (narrowly and conventionally moral)
