Universalisability

Alternative forms

• universalizability

Origin

c. 1950 universalisable + -ity

Full definition of universalisability

Noun

1. (chiefly philosophy) The quality (as of a rule) of being able to be applied universally; that is, to any given situation with no exceptions.
• 1964, Timothy_Sprigge, "Definition of a Moral Judgment," Philosophy, vol. 39, no. 150, p. 306:Some have thought that universalisability was the criterion of ethicalness.