prescriptivity

English

Etymology

prescriptive +‎ -ity

Noun

prescriptivity (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being prescriptive.
    • 2016, David Baggett, Jerry L. Walls, God and Cosmos: Moral Truth and Human Meaning, →ISBN:
      He is underambitious in his characterization of morality, cashing out prescriptivity in terms of prevailing expectations rather than objective authority, settling for an account of a sense of obligations rather than obligations themselves, and for empathetic behavior rather than empathetic motivations.

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