immoralism

American  

[ih-mawr-uh-liz-uhm, ih-mor-] / ɪˈmɔr əˌlɪz əm, ɪˈmɒr- /

noun

Philosophy.

1. indifference toward or opposition to conventional morality.

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Other Word Forms

• immoralist noun

Etymology

Origin of immoralism

First recorded in 1905–10; immoral + -ism

Example Sentences

At all events it must serve a better purpose to appraise the practical importance of Nietzsche's speculations than blankly to denounce their immoralism.

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Grob boldly affirms: "To imperialist immoralism, with the device, 'Our interest is our right,' we counterpose, 'Right is our interest.'"

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Wedekind is of this order; a moralist is concealed behind his shining ambuscade of verbal immoralism.

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Here is an "immoralism" deeper and far more anti-social than any "beyond good and evil."

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If they are right, then we must picture Ireland as the victim of a radical immoralism.

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