moral outrage
Ethics-driven fury
Moral outrage is intense anger provoked by perceived injustice or ethical violation.
Unlike ordinary anger, it carries a sense of righteousness—the feeling that something is not merely annoying but fundamentally wrong: The video sparked moral outrage across social media.
The term sometimes implies performative or excessive indignation: Save your moral outrage for something that actually matters.
- indignationAnger from mistreatment
- righteous angerOutrage at moral wrongs
- righteousMorally good, justified
- furyIntense violent anger
- disgustIntense physical aversion
scandal · injustice · protest · condemn · anger · public shaming · uproar · backlash · appalled · horrified · virtue · virtue signaling · sanctimonious · pearl clutching · rage · offense · violated · shameful
- emotional rhetoricpathos, emotional appeal, appeals to emotion, loaded language, loaded words
- moral emotionsguilt, shame, remorse, conscience, compunction
- moral psychologyconscience, ethical reasoning, ethical dilemmas
- anger in classical literaturewrath, fury, rage, revenge, divine wrath
- reproachesblaming, scolding, rebuking, reprimanding, censuring
- scandalscandal, infamy, disgrace, coverup, cover-up
moral outrageequanimity
Unshakable mental steadiness
indifference · apathy · composure · serenity · emotional detachment
moral outrageapprobation
Formal expression of approval
commendation · sanction · blessing · vindication · absolution
moral outrageapathy
Absence of feeling
unconcern · disinterest · amorality · moral blindness · nonchalance
moral, morals, morality, moralist, moralistic, moralize, moralizing, morally, immoral