Ethosnoun
The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.
Ethicadjective
Moral, relating to morals.
Ethosnoun
(rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct.
Ethicnoun
A set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual.
‘I think the golden rule is a great ethic.’;
Ethosnoun
(aesthetics) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos.
Ethicnoun
The morality of an action.
Ethosnoun
The character, sentiment, or disposition of a community or people, considered as a natural endowment; the spirit which actuates manners and customs; also, the characteristic tone or genius of an institution or social organization.
Ethicadjective
Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy.
‘The ethical meaning of the miracles.’;
Ethosnoun
The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character - character as influenced by the ethos (sense 1) of a people - rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; - opposed to pathos.
Ethicnoun
the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group; as, the Puritan ethic.
Ethosnoun
(anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era;
‘the Greek ethos’;
Ethicnoun
a system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct.
Ethosnoun
the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its attitudes and aspirations
‘a challenge to the ethos of the 1960s’;
Ethicnoun
the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group;
‘the Puritan ethic’; ‘a person with old-fashioned values’;
Ethos
Ethos ( or US: ) is a Greek word meaning that is used to describe the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize a community, nation, or ideology. The Greeks also used this word to refer to the power of music to influence emotions, behaviors, and even morals.
‘character’;
Ethicnoun
a system of principles governing morality and acceptable conduct
Ethicnoun
a set of moral principles, especially ones relating to or affirming a specified group, field, or form of conduct
‘the puritan ethic was being replaced by the hedonist ethic’;
Ethicadjective
relating to moral principles or the branch of knowledge dealing with these
‘the ethic question is of wider import’;