Deontology

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Ethical theory concerned with duties and rights.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The ethical study of duties, obligations, and rights, with an approach focusing on the rightness or wrongness of actions themselves and not on the goodness or badness of the consequences of those actions.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The science which relates to duty or moral obligation.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The science of duty; ethics.
    • Word Usage
    "The term deontology is derived from the Greek deon which means binding duty."
    Form
    deontologist    deontological   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Egyptology    Scientology    anesthesiology    anthology    anthropology    apology    archaeology    archeology    astrogeology    astrology   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ethology    utilitarianism    casuistry    couth    mimesis    pragmatism    good    hedonism    caligraphy    Beirut   
     
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