Prescriptivity

Origin

en + -prescriptive + ity

Full definition of prescriptivity

Noun

1. The quality or state of being prescriptive.
• 2016 , David Baggett; Jerry L. Walls , God and Cosmos: Moral Truth and Human Meaning , 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.

Synonyms

• prescriptiveness