prescriptivity

The quality or state of being prescriptive.

Noun

  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...

Origin

From prescriptive + -ity.

Synonyms

prescriptiveness

Related

descriptivity normativity