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value-laden

value-laden adjective: involving moral evaluations of some kind.

Adjective

value-laden (comparative more value-laden, superlative most value-laden)

  1. Involving moral evaluations of some kind.
    • "The term 'crisis' is contested by some Western scholars, who would prefer the less value-laden term 'disequilibrium'."2002, John L. H. Keep, A History of the Soviet Union, 1945-1991: Last of the Empires, Oxford University Press
    • "Their claim is that since theories reflect cultural, historical, and social preferences, they are value-laden."2003 April 30, John Z. Sadler, Descriptions and Prescriptions: Values, Mental Disorders, and the DSMs, JHU Press

Forms of value-laden

comparativemore value-laden
superlativemost value-laden

Questions about value-laden

What does value-laden mean?
Value-laden means involving moral evaluations of some kind.
What part of speech is value-laden?
Value-laden is an adjective.

Words near value-laden in the dictionary

  1. value-added taxes
  2. value-adds
  3. value-form
  4. value-forms
  5. value-free
  6. value-laden
  7. value-neutral
  8. valueable
  9. valued
  10. valued policies
  11. valued policy

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