A great many people were opposed to gene therapy in terms of ethics.
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Ethics
//ˈɛθ.ɪks//
Synonyms for "ethics" (75 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (37)
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2 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesderived
9 entrieshas context
1 entrieshas property
2 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
13 entriesTranslations
120 translations across 55 languages.
Afrikaans
2 entries- etiek noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- eties noun (standards of conduct)
Arabic
3 entries- أَخْلَاق noun (standards of conduct)
- أَدَب noun (standards of conduct)
- عِلْم الْأَخْلَاق noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Armenian
2 entries- բարոյագիտություն noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- էթիկա noun (standards of conduct)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- etika noun (standards of conduct)
- etika noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Belarusian
2 entries- э́тыка noun (standards of conduct)
- э́тыка noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Bengali
3 entries- আখলাক noun (standards of conduct)
- আখলাক noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- নৈতিকতা noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Bulgarian
2 entries- е́тика noun (standards of conduct)
- е́тика noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Catalan
2 entries- ètica noun (standards of conduct)
- ètica noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Chinese
1 entries- 倫理 /伦理 noun (standards of conduct)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 倫理 /伦理 noun (standards of conduct)
- 倫理學 /伦理学 noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 倫理 /伦理 noun (standards of conduct)
- 倫理學 /伦理学 noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- 道德 noun (standards of conduct)
Czech
2 entries- etika noun (standards of conduct)
- etika noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Danish
1 entries- etik noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Dutch
4 entries- ethiek noun (standards of conduct)
- ethiek noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- zedenkunde noun (standards of conduct)
- zedenkunde noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Esperanto
1 entries- etiko noun (standards of conduct)
Estonian
1 entries- eetika noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Faroese
2 entries- siðafrøði noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- siðalæra noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Finnish
3 entries- etiikka noun (standards of conduct)
- etiikka noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- moraali noun (standards of conduct)
French
2 entries- éthique noun (standards of conduct)
- éthique noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Galician
2 entries- ética noun (standards of conduct)
- ética noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Georgian
1 entries- ეთიკა noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
German
3 entries- Ethik noun (standards of conduct)
- Ethik noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- Verhaltenskodex noun (standards of conduct)
Greek
1 entries- ηθική noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Hebrew
1 entries- אֶתִיקָה noun (standards of conduct)
Hindi
3 entries- आचरण noun (standards of conduct)
- आचार noun (standards of conduct)
- आचारशास्त्र noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Hungarian
2 entries- erkölcstan noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- etika noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Indonesian
1 entries- etika noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Irish
2 entries- eitic noun (standards of conduct)
- eitic noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Italian
2 entries- etica noun (standards of conduct)
- etica noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Japanese
2 entries- 倫理 noun (standards of conduct)
- 倫理学 noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Kazakh
1 entries- этика noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Khmer
2 entries- សីលធម៌ noun (standards of conduct)
- សីលវិជ្ជា noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Korean
4 entries- 륜리 noun (standards of conduct)
- 륜리학 noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- 윤리 noun (standards of conduct)
- 윤리학 noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Latvian
2 entries- ētika noun (standards of conduct)
- ētika noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Macedonian
2 entries- етика noun (standards of conduct)
- етика noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Malay
1 entries- etika noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Mongolian
1 entries- этик noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Māori
3 entries- matatika noun (standards of conduct)
- matatika noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- tikanga matatika noun (standards of conduct)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- etikk noun (standards of conduct)
- etikk noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- etikk noun (standards of conduct)
- etikk noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Persian
4 entries- اخلاق noun (standards of conduct)
- ادب noun (standards of conduct)
- اصول اخلاق noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- علم اخلاق noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Polish
1 entries- etyka noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Portuguese
2 entries- ética noun (standards of conduct)
- ética noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Russian
2 entries- э́тика noun (standards of conduct)
- э́тика noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ètika noun (standards of conduct)
- ètika noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- ѐтика noun (standards of conduct)
- ѐтика noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Slovak
2 entries- etika noun (standards of conduct)
- etika noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Spanish
2 entries- ética noun (standards of conduct)
- ética noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Swedish
3 entries- etik noun (standards of conduct)
- etik noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- sedelära noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Tagalog
4 entries- asalan noun (standards of conduct)
- asalan noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- dalub-asalan noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- dalubasalan noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Tajik
3 entries- илми ахлоқ noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- одоб noun (standards of conduct)
- одоб noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Thai
2 entries- จริยธรรม noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- จริยศาสตร์ noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Turkish
2 entries- ahlak noun (standards of conduct)
- etik noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Ukrainian
2 entries- е́тика noun (standards of conduct)
- е́тика noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Vietnamese
3 entries- luân lý noun (standards of conduct)
- luân lý học noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
- đạo đức học noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Yiddish
1 entries- עטיק noun (study of principles governing right and wrong conduct)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
The paper discusses the problem in terms of ethics.
Source: tatoeba (56460)
Ethics means the rules of conduct.
Source: tatoeba (325924)
Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red — and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue — and no one should be allowed to read them.
Source: tatoeba (411838)
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