prescriptivity en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /pɹɪskɹɪpˈtɪvɪti/
Etymology
From prescriptive + -ity.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality or state of being prescriptive.
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.
2016, David Baggett, Jerry L. Walls, God and Cosmos: Moral Truth and Human Meaning, →ISBN: