| [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] vitium fault, vice | | [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] vitium fault, vice |
| '''Vice''' is a [[practice]] or a [[habit]] considered immoral, depraved, and/or degrading in the [[associated]] [[society]]. In more minor usage, vice can refer to a fault, a [[defect]], an infirmity or merely a bad [[habit]]. Synonyms for vice include fault, depravity, [[sin]], [[iniquity]], wickedness and corruption. The [[modern]] [[English]] term that best captures its [[original]] [[meaning]] is the word vicious, which means "full of vice". In this sense, the [[word]] ''vice'' comes from the [[Latin]] word vitium, meaning "failing or defect". Vice is the [[opposite]] of [[virtue]]. | | '''Vice''' is a [[practice]] or a [[habit]] considered immoral, depraved, and/or degrading in the [[associated]] [[society]]. In more minor usage, vice can refer to a fault, a [[defect]], an infirmity or merely a bad [[habit]]. Synonyms for vice include fault, depravity, [[sin]], [[iniquity]], wickedness and corruption. The [[modern]] [[English]] term that best captures its [[original]] [[meaning]] is the word vicious, which means "full of vice". In this sense, the [[word]] ''vice'' comes from the [[Latin]] word vitium, meaning "failing or defect". Vice is the [[opposite]] of [[virtue]]. |
− | In the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom United Kingdom] the term vice is commonly used in [[law]] and law enforcement to refer to [[criminal]] offenses related to [[prostitution]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling gambling], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography pornography]. In the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States United States] the term is also used to refer to [[crimes]] related to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol alcohol] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcotics narcotics]. The precise legality or illegality of such acts is dependent on the [[jurisdiction]]. Other similar types of [[acts]] perceived as immoral or obscene may be classified as vice by law enforcement as well. | + | In the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom United Kingdom] the term vice is commonly used in [[law]] and law enforcement to refer to [[criminal]] offenses related to [[prostitution]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling gambling], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography pornography]. In the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States United States] the term is also used to refer to [[crimes]] related to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol alcohol] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcotics narcotics]. The precise legality or illegality of such acts is dependent on the [[jurisdiction]]. Other similar types of [[acts]] perceived as immoral or obscene may be classified as vice by law enforcement as well. |