value orientation

1. 1.

   the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group

   “the Puritan ethic”

   “a person with old-fashioned values”

   Synonymsethicmoral principlevalue-system

   Broaderprinciple

   NarrowerChartism

Questions about value orientation

What does value orientation mean?

value orientation means "the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group".

What is another word for value orientation?

Close synonyms include ethic, moral principle, value-system. 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 value orientation a common word?

value orientation 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.