prescriptivity
noun/pɹɪskɹɪpˈtɪvɪti/
Etymology From prescriptive + -ity.
1
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:
- Synonyms
- prescriptiveness
- Related terms
- descriptivity, normativity