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prescriptivity

/pɹɪskɹɪpˈtɪvɪti/

prescriptivity noun: the quality or state of being prescriptive.

Noun

prescriptivity (uncountable)

  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...2016, David Baggett, Jerry L. Walls, God and Cosmos: Moral Truth and Human Meaning, →ISBN

Synonyms of prescriptivity

Origin of prescriptivity

From prescriptive + -ity.

Words that rhyme with prescriptivity

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Questions about prescriptivity

What does prescriptivity mean?
Prescriptivity means the quality or state of being prescriptive.
What part of speech is prescriptivity?
Prescriptivity is a noun.
How do you pronounce prescriptivity?
Prescriptivity is pronounced /pɹɪskɹɪpˈtɪvɪti/.

Words near prescriptivity in the dictionary

  1. prescriptivism
  2. prescriptivisms
  3. prescriptivist
  4. prescriptivistic
  5. prescriptivists
  6. prescriptivity
  7. prescriptorial
  8. prescripts
  9. prescrotal
  10. prescuta
  11. prescutal

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