ethicalness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English ethical Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English ethicalness From ethical + -ness.
Meanings
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(rare, uncountable) The state or quality of being ethical.
Some have thought that universalisability was the criterion of ethicalness.
1964, Timothy L. S. Sprigge, “Definition of a Moral Judgment”, in Philosophy, volume 39, number 150, page 306: