prescriptivity

English

Etymology

From prescriptive +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɪskɹɪpˈtɪvɪti/
• Rhymes: -ɪvɪti

Noun

prescriptivity (uncountable)

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

     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

See also

• descriptivity
• normativity