moral sense

noun

1. the ability to determine the rightness or wrongness of actions.

Word History and Origins

Origin of moral sense¹

First recorded in 1690–1700

Example Sentences

Withdrawing funding for a promising experimental vaccine makes no financial or moral sense.

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Our moral sense is grounded in intuition, not reason, Gray argues, and in perception rather than objective reality.

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“If this decision does not outrage the moral sense of the country, then nothing will,” FDR’s Interior secretary, Harold Ickes, wrote in his diary.

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Now, the Dignitas Infinita declaration calls abortion an "extremely dangerous crisis of the moral sense" and says that surrogacy is a "violation" of both the woman and the child.

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Associate Justice William W. Bedsworth wrote on behalf of the district court that its role was “not to render judgment in a moral sense, but only as to the legal issues raised.”

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