a. nonce-wd. [f. A- pref. 14 + MORAL.] Not within the sphere of moral sense; not to be characterized as either good or bad; non-moral.
1874. Q. Rev., Vol. 137. 56. There exists no evidence whatever yet discovered for the existence of races either non-moral or with a really inverted morality, or for the evolution of a ‘moral state’ from a pre-existing brutal and ‘amoral’ condition of mankind.
1882. R. Stevenson, in Longm. Mag., I. 70. There is a vast deal in life and letters both which is not immoral, but simply a-moral.
