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Antonyms for ethos

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ee-thos, ee-thohs, eth-os, -ohs
Phonetic Transcription : ˈi θɒs, ˈi θoʊs, ˈɛθ ɒs, -oʊs

Definition of ethos

Origin :
  • revived by Palgrave in 1851 from Greek ethos "moral character, nature, disposition, habit, custom," from suffixed form of PIE root *s(w)e- (see idiom). An important concept in Aristotle (e.g. "Rhetoric" II xii-xiv).
  • noun philosophy
Example sentences :
  • What each nation stands for, its ethos, its personality, must be made clear.
  • Extract from : « The Psychology of Nations » by G.E. Partridge
  • The ethos of the satiric persona was something they could not understand.
  • Extract from : « Two Poems Against Pope » by Leonard Welsted
  • I can find no passage in which this source of ethos is indicated.
  • Extract from : « The Modes of Ancient Greek Music » by David Binning Monro
  • It is "ethical" or "moral" in the sense of conforming to the ethos or mores of the group.
  • Extract from : « Ethics » by John Dewey and James Hayden Tufts
  • They were criminals, by their own ethos, when they desecrated our dead.
  • Extract from : « The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad » by Edward John Thompson
  • When the whole spirit, atmosphere, and ethos are anti-moral it is idle to chronicle any chance rectitude of detail.
  • Extract from : « The Open Secret of Ireland » by T. M. Kettle
  • Ethos is inextricably linked with a single society and cannot be separated from it, or it loses all meaning.
  • Extract from : « The Ethical Engineer » by Henry Maxwell Dempsey
  • The ethos of a group is just a catch-all term for the ways in which the members of a group rub against each other.
  • Extract from : « The Ethical Engineer » by Henry Maxwell Dempsey
  • For in the view of those who distinguish harmonia from tonos it is the harmonia upon which the ethos of music depends.
  • Extract from : « The Modes of Ancient Greek Music » by David Binning Monro
  • These moveable notes, then, give an ethos to the music because they determine the genus of the scale.
  • Extract from : « The Modes of Ancient Greek Music » by David Binning Monro

Synonyms for ethos

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