All natural law synonyms

noun natural law

• moral philosophy — philosophy dealing with the principles of morality; ethics.
• morality — conformity to the rules of right conduct; moral or virtuous conduct.
• value — relative worth, merit, or importance: the value of a college education; the value of a queen in chess.
• righteousness — the quality or state of being righteous.
• propriety — conformity to established standards of good or proper behavior or manners.
• rightness — correctness or accuracy.
• rightful — having a valid or just claim, as to some property or position; legitimate: the rightful owner of the farm.
• belief — Belief is a feeling of certainty that something exists, is true, or is good.
• conduct — When you conduct an activity or task, you organize it and carry it out.
• conscience — Conscience is doing what you believe is right even though it might be unpopular, difficult, or dangerous.
• convention — A convention is a way of behaving that is considered to be correct or polite by most people in a society.
• decency — Decency is the quality of following accepted moral standards.
• goodness — the state or quality of being good.
• honesty — the quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness.
• honor — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
• ideal — a standard of perfection or excellence.
• imperative — imperative language
• integrity — adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.
• morality — conformity to the rules of right conduct; moral or virtuous conduct.
• mores — Mossi (def 2).
• nature — has the X nature
• practice — habitual or customary performance; operation: office practice.
• standard — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
• criteria — a standard of judgment or criticism; a rule or principle for evaluating or testing something.
• principles — an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
• standards — something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model.
• adaptation — An adaptation of a book or play is a film or a television programme that is based on it.
• social darwinism — a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.
• survival of the fittest — (not in technical use) natural selection.
• darwinism — the theory of the origin of animal and plant species by evolution through a process of natural selection
• artificial selection — a process in the breeding of animals and in the cultivation of plants by which the breeder chooses to perpetuate only those forms having certain desirable inheritable characteristics.
• law of the jungle — a system or mode of action in which the strongest survive, presumably as animals in nature or as human beings whose activity is not regulated by the laws or ethics of civilization.
• phylogeny — the development or evolution of a particular group of organisms.
• social evolution — the gradual development of society and social forms, institutions, etc., usually through a series of peaceful stages. Compare revolution (def 2).
• natural selection — the process by which forms of life having traits that better enable them to adapt to specific environmental pressures, as predators, changes in climate, or competition for food or mates, will tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers than others of their kind, thus ensuring the perpetuation of those favorable traits in succeeding generations.
• neo-darwinism — the theory of evolution as expounded by later students of Charles Darwin, especially Weismann, holding that natural selection accounts for evolution and denying the inheritance of acquired characters.
• punctuated equilibrium — theory of, Biology. a hypothesis holding that the evolution of species proceeds in a characteristic pattern of relative stability for long periods of time interspersed with much shorter periods during which many species become extinct and new species emerge. Also called punctuationalism. Compare gradualism (def 3).
• protocol — the customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality, precedence, and etiquette.
• pseudo-ethical — pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct.