Vice

A vice is a practice, behaviour, or habit generally considered morally wrong in the associated society. In more minor usage, vice can refer to a fault, a negative character trait, a defect, an infirmity, or a bad or unhealthy habit. Vices are usually associated with a fault in a person's character or temperament rather than their morality.^[1]

For the media company, see Vice Media. For the mechanical gripping device, see Vise. For other uses, see Vice (disambiguation).

Synonyms for vice include fault, sin, depravity, iniquity, wickedness, and corruption. The antonym of vice is virtue.^[2]

Etymology[edit]

The modern English term that best captures its original meaning is the word vicious, which means "full of vice". In this sense, the word vice comes from the Latin word vitium, meaning "failing or defect".^[3]^[4]

Absence of

shame

Absence of

embarrassment

Jealousy

(in the sense of stinginess)

Parsimony

Remorse

Drowsiness

Distraction

Torpor

Anger

Concealment of wrongdoing

Buddhist ethics

Catalogue of Vices and Virtues

Golden mean (philosophy)

Islamic ethics

Moral character

Sin

Virtue

All are according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

etymologies

Aristotle, trans. H. Rackman. Virtues and Vices, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992. vol. 285.

Goodman, Lenn E. (2005). . Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-518914-8.

Islamic Humanism

Hess, Kären M.; Orthmann, Christine Hess (2008). . Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. ISBN 978-0-495-39090-9.

Introduction to Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice

Hirakawa, Akira; Groner, Paul (1998). . Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 978-81-208-0955-0.

A history of Indian Buddhism: from Śākyamuni to early Mahāyāna

Newhauser, Richard, ed. In the Garden of Evil: The Vices and Culture in the Middle Ages. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto 2005. 0-88844-818-X