One of the mysteries of the English language finally explained.
Synonyms of vice in English:
vice
See definition of vice
noun
1‘people may be driven to vice by cruel social circumstances’
immorality, wrongdoing, wrong, wickedness, badness, evil-doing, evil, iniquity, villainy, venality, impurity, corruption, corruptness, misconduct
sin, sinfulness, ungodliness, godlessness, unholiness, unrighteousness, profanity
depravity, degeneracy, turpitude, sordidity, perversion, pervertedness, dissolution, dissipation, debauchery, decadence, lasciviousness, lewdness, lechery, lecherousness, degradation
crime, transgression, offence, immoral act, evil act, act of wickedness, fall from grace
archaic trespass
rare peccability, peccancy
virtue, righteousness
2‘smoking is my only vice’
shortcoming, failing, flaw, fault, defect, weakness, weak point, deficiency, limitation, imperfection, blemish, foible, fallibility, frailty, infirmity
virtue, strong point