MORALISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does moralism mean? 

• MORALISM (noun)
  The noun MORALISM has 2 senses:

1. a moral maxim

2. judgments about another person's morality

  Familiarity information: MORALISM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORALISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A moral maxim

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("moralism" is a kind of...):

axiom; maxim (a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits)

Derivation:

moralistic (narrowly and conventionally moral)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Judgments about another person's morality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

he could not stand her hectoring moralism

Hypernyms ("moralism" is a kind of...):

value judgement; value judgment (an assessment that reveals more about the values of the person making the assessment than about the reality of what is assessed)

Derivation:

moralist (someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms)

moralistic (narrowly and conventionally moral)