What is unscrupulousness? It seems to be clear without dictionaries, just listen carefully - "without principles." That is, when using this noun in his speech, a person says that someone is deprived of integrity. However, this expression can be correlated not with people, but with their actions and even with any phenomena.
General characteristics of the word
Unscrupulousness is a noun derived from an adjective. It is inanimate and is used in everyday speech to characterize something.
Refers to the female genus and is inclined in all cases. Few people know, but this word has a plural. That is, if someone pronounces an expression like "this person has too many unprincipled principles," then the speaker does not make any speech error.
The root of the word is "principle." Accordingly, any similar root expressions with the prefix included in the composition with a negative meaning will become its synonyms.
About meaning
Unprincipledness is at the same time part of everyday speech, that is, a word that has a definite meaning, and a term used in psychology, philosophy to characterize personality traits. However, the semantic meaning of the part of speech and the term is almost the same.
Of course, “unprincipledness, as a scientific term, has a wider and wider application. This concept includes not only a characteristic of a particular personality quality, but also the phenomena associated with it - the causes of formation, possible consequences, problems. Philosophy considers various aspects and aspects of the concept of “unprincipled”. The arguments of scientists are found to argue that this personality trait is negative, and for the opposite. That is, positive moments are found in it.
However, for most people this is just a word with a specific meaning. In a general sense, unprincipledness is:
- lack of specific moral qualities;
- propensity for condemned or inappropriate behavior;
- manifestations of cynicism.
That is, the expression is used in conversations with the purpose of designating, highlighting how a person behaves, manifests in relation to others and what qualities he has.
About use
Saying “unprincipled” is possible not only about someone specific. Often this word characterizes government policy, the manner of doing business and other similar phenomena.
No less rarely, this expression is used in lengthy arguments relating to works of literature, art, spheres of psychology or philosophy. For example, everyone has been familiar with the expression “problem of unprincipledness” since school days. What it is? This issue, touched upon in many works of classical literature, as a rule, is one of the components of the global theme of the eternal opposition of good and evil. Through depicting the callousness or immorality of the characters, the authors show the dilemma of confronting some qualities and phenomena with others. An example is Chekhov's famous essay “Left” from school.
Of course, in ordinary conversations, people rarely use this word to refer to global problems of the structure of the universe. Usually it is used to characterize a certain act, any political decision of the government, immoral in relation to a particular social stratum of the population, or someone else's manner of doing business. Often they talk so simply about the character's stock and attitude towards people around.