sense of duty

1. 1.

   a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility

   Synonymssense of shame

   Broaderconscience

Questions about sense of duty

What does sense of duty mean?

sense of duty means "a motivating awareness of ethical responsibility".

What is another word for sense of duty?

Close synonyms include sense of shame. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sense of duty a common word?

sense of duty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.