Definition for Casuistry:

• moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas

Synonyms for Casuistry:

• n.

  •casuistry (noun)
  • chicanery.
  •equivocation (noun)
  • evasion,
  • tergiversation.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • sophistry.
  •
  • sophism.
  •Other relevant words:
  • dishonesty,
  • wrangling,
  • corruption,
  • artfulness,
  • phenomenology,
  • craftiness,
  • hedonism,
  • deception,
  • cunning,
  • crossed fingers,
  • Polemics,
  • Speciosity,
  • controversy,
  • polemic,
  • jesuitism,
  • ontology,
  • obscurantism,
  • hassle,
  • oversubtleness,
  • hollowness,
  • emptiness,
  • falsity,
  • bickering,
  • duplicity,
  • falseness,
  • distortion,
  • utilitarianism,
  • set-to,
  • theory of knowledge,
  • litigation,
  • deceit,
  • quibble,
  • plausibleness,
  • misapplication,
  • mendacity,
  • untruthfulness,
  • fraudulence,
  • legerdemain,
  • stoicism,
  • philosophy,
  • defense,
  • argument,
  • categorical imperative,
  • Aretaics,
  • jesuitry,
  • contention,
  • Logomachy,
  • mendaciousness,
  • flyting,
  • passage of arms,
  • golden rule,
  • word sense,
  • deceitfulness,
  • uncandidness,
  • equivocalness,
  • Evolutionism,
  • axiology,
  • obfuscation,
  • epistemology,
  • Aretology,
  • rationalization,
  • lie,
  • treachery,
  • metaphysics,
  • Eudaemonism,
  • sophistries,
  • slyness,
  • correct,
  • perfectionism,
  • quiddity,
  • Eudaemonics,
  • subtlety,
  • logic,
  • dispute,
  • value theory,
  • war of words,
  • polity,
  • school of thought,
  • true,
  • deviousness,
  • insincerity,
  • apologetics,
  • cosmology,
  • empiricism,
  • guile,
  • refinement,
  • Philosophism,
  • Deontology,
  • special pleading,
  • apology,
  • gnosiology,
  • ethology,
  • circularity,
  • intuitionism,
  • plausibility,
  • ethical philosophy,
  • disingenuousness,
  • probabilism,
  • sophistication,
  • fallaciousness,
  • misconduct,
  • perversion,
  • insidiousness,
  • mockery,
  • vicious circle,
  • chicane,
  • disputation,
  • aesthetics,
  • nonsense,
  • bicker,
  • apologia,
  • mystification,
  • rhubarb,
  • hubbub.

Antonyms for Casuistry:

• n.

  • overgeneral reasoning
    frankness, certainty, honesty, facing, meeting, truth, reality, truthfulness, fact, surety, directness.

Hypernym for Casuistry:

• n.

  • cognition
    probabilism.

Hyponym for Casuistry:

• n.

  • cognition
    ethics, argument, line, argumentation, moral philosophy, line of reasoning, logical argument.