Vice vs. Virtue
Difference Between Vice and Virtue
Vicenoun
A practice or habit considered to be evil, degrading, or immoral
the vices of smoking and drinking.Virtuenoun
Moral excellence and righteousness; goodness.
Vicenoun
Wicked or depraved conduct or habits; corruption
"sharpers, desperadoes, pirates, and criminals steeped in vice" (Carl Holliday).Virtuenoun
An example or kind of moral excellence
the virtue of patience.Vicenoun
Prostitution, the sale of illegal drugs, and certain other forms of usually nonviolent criminal behavior.
Virtuenoun
(Archaic) Chastity, especially in a woman.
Vicenoun
A slight personal failing; a foible
the vice of untidiness.Virtuenoun
A particularly efficacious, good, or beneficial quality; advantage
a plan with the virtue of being practical.Vicenoun
A flaw or imperfection; a defect
"Lady Hester remarked on the vice in his looks" (Edna O'Brien).Virtuenoun
Effective force or power
believed in the virtue of prayer.Vicenoun
Vice A character representing generalized or particular vice in English morality plays.
Virtuenoun
virtues(Christianity) The fifth of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology.
Vicenoun
A jester or buffoon.
Virtuenoun
(Obsolete) Manly courage; valor.
Vicenoun
Variant of vise.
Virtuenoun
(uncountable) Accordance with moral principles; conformity of behaviour or thought with the strictures of morality; good moral conduct.
Vicepreposition
In place of; replacing
Ms. Fine acted as treasurer, vice Mr. Smith.Virtuenoun
A particular manifestation of moral excellence in a person; an admirable quality.
Vicenoun
A bad habit.
Gluttony is a vice, not a virtue.Virtuenoun
Specifically, each of several qualities held to be particularly important, including the four cardinal virtues, the three theological virtues, or the seven virtues opposed to the seven deadly sins.
Vicenoun
(legal) Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs.
Virtuenoun
An inherently advantageous or excellent quality of something or someone; a favourable point, an advantage.
Vicenoun
A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness.
Virtuenoun
A creature embodying divine power, specifically one of the orders of heavenly beings, traditionally ranked above angels and below archangels.
Vicenoun
A mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping or holding (also spelled vise).
Virtuenoun
(uncountable) Specifically, moral conduct in sexual behaviour, especially of women; chastity.
Vicenoun
A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
Virtuenoun
(obsolete) The inherent power of a god, or other supernatural being.
Vicenoun
(obsolete) A grip or grasp.
Virtuenoun
The inherent power or efficacy of something now only in phrases.
Vicenoun
(architecture) A winding or spiral staircase.
Virtuenoun
the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong
Viceverb
To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
Virtuenoun
any admirable quality or attribute;
work of great meritViceadjective
in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank
vice presidentvice admiralVirtuenoun
morality with respect to sexual relations
Vicepreposition
instead of, in place of
A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.Virtuenoun
a particular moral excellence
Vicenoun
moral weakness
Vicenoun
a specific form of evildoing;
vice offends the moral standards of the community
