amorality
Ethics simply absent
Amorality is the absence of moral sense or concern—neither moral nor immoral, but outside morality altogether.
Where immorality violates ethical standards, amorality simply doesn't recognize them: The amorality of nature—a tornado destroys without malice or mercy.
The term often describes coldly rational behavior unconstrained by ethical considerations: corporate amorality, the amorality of pure self-interest.
Absence of feeling
- unconcernAbsence of worry
- disregardWillful lack of attention
- insensitivityLack of emotional awareness
- coldnessLow temperature state
heartlessness · callousness · unfeelingness · nonchalance · detachment · dispassion · uninvolved · unmoved
Empathy-absent personality disorder
- sociopathyPathological absence of conscience
- narcissismExcessive admiration of oneself
- callousnessCruel emotional indifference
- cold-bloodednessUnfeeling, merciless nature
emotional detachment · guiltlessness · shamelessness · remorselessness · antisocial · dissociation · compartmentalization · dehumanization
Rejection of objective meaning
- relativismContext-dependent truth doctrine
- egoismDoctrine of self-motivation
- unethicalViolating moral standards
- unprincipledLacking moral standards
unscrupulous · conscienceless · remorseless · nonmoral · valueless · value-free · beyond good and evil
Not favoring any side
- disinterestedFree from personal stakes
- nonjudgmentalNot forming harsh opinions
- value-neutralFree from evaluative stance
- detachedApart or uninvolved
clinical · impersonal · scientific · descriptive · dispassionate · analytical · empirical · observational
apathy
Absence of feeling
- unconcernAbsence of worry
- disregardWillful lack of attention
- insensitivityLack of emotional awareness
coldness · heartlessness · callousness · unfeelingness · nonchalance · detachment · dispassion · uninvolved · unmoved · incurious
psychopathy
Empathy-absent personality disorder
- sociopathyPathological absence of conscience
- narcissismExcessive admiration of oneself
- callousnessCruel emotional indifference
cold-bloodedness · emotional detachment · guiltlessness · shamelessness · remorselessness · antisocial · dissociation · compartmentalization · dehumanization
nihilism
Rejection of objective meaning
- relativismContext-dependent truth doctrine
- egoismDoctrine of self-motivation
- unethicalViolating moral standards
unprincipled · unscrupulous · conscienceless · remorseless · nonmoral · valueless · value-free · beyond good and evil
neutral
Not favoring any side
- disinterestedFree from personal stakes
- nonjudgmentalNot forming harsh opinions
- value-neutralFree from evaluative stance
detached · clinical · impersonal · scientific · descriptive · dispassionate · analytical · empirical · observational · fact-based
- moralityethics, morals, right and wrong, conscience, ethical principles
- Nihilismmeaninglessness, nothingness, emptiness, futility, absurdity
- cunningcunning, craftiness, crafty, guile, slyness
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
- antiheroesDeadpool, Punisher, Wolverine, Venom, Catwoman
- decadencedecadence, decay, lavishness, aestheticism, dandyism
amoralitymorality
Right and wrong principles
conscience · moral reasoning · scrupulousness · moral philosophy · ethics
amoralitymoral conviction
Firm ethical belief
conscientiousness · integrity · moral purpose · moralism · ethicality
amoralityuprightness
Moral correctness and honesty
righteousness · moral integrity · virtue · rectitude · probity
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